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What (who) is rouseabout - definition

WORKER WITH BROAD-BASED, NON-SPECIFIC SKILLS
Rouseabout
  • A roustabout throwing a freshly shorn fleece onto a wool table for skirting and classing.
  • Roustabouts unloading cotton from steamboat ca. 1900.

rouseabout         
¦ noun Austral./NZ an unskilled labourer on a farm.
Origin
C19: orig. dialect in the sense 'rough bustling person', from rouse.
Roustabout         
·noun A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.
Roustabout         
Roustabout (Australia/New Zealand English: rouseabout) is an occupational term. Traditionally, it referred to a worker with broad-based, non-specific skills.

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Roustabout

Roustabout (Australia/New Zealand English: rouseabout) is an occupational term. Traditionally, it referred to a worker with broad-based, non-specific skills. In particular, it was used to describe show or circus workers who handled materials for construction on fairgrounds. In modern times it is applied to rural employment, such as those assisting sheep shearing, and positions in the oil industry.