roustabout

Example Sentences

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Let's go along to those agencies to-morrow and say we'll be rouseabouts without any wages, just for food.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora

Some of the rouseabouts laughed, but the joke fell as flat with Tom as any other joke.

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

The shearers have a separate union from the rouseabouts, and there is a good deal of ill feeling between the two classes.

From "Over There" with the Australians by Knyvett, R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh)

The rouseabouts and shearers use the hut in common during shearing.

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

No; that is the teaching of rouseabouts and gins.

From In the Roaring Fifties by Dyson, Edward