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rouseabout
▪ I. rouseabout, n. (ˈraʊzəbaʊt) [f. rouse v.1] 1. dial. (See quots. 1778 and 1886.)1746 Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.) 30 A rubbacrock, rouze⁓about..swashbucket. 1778 ― Gloss., A Rouzabout, a restless Creature never easy at Home, but roaming from Place to Place. Also, a Sort of large Pease [etc.]. 1886 E...
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Roustabout
Roustabout (Australia/New Zealand English: rouseabout) is an occupational term. Australia and New Zealand
In Australia and New Zealand a "rouseabout" can be any worker with broad-based, non-specific skills, in any industry.
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rousie
rousie Austral. and N.Z. colloq. (ˈraʊzɪ) Also roussie, rousy. [Abbrev. of rouseabout.] = rouseabout n. 2.1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 29 Nov. 20/1 The rousie entered the office to be paid off. 1952 [see dagger n.2 b]. 1956 F. B. Vickers First Place to Stranger ix. 135 He tried to run all the rousies till...
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Gary Shearston
2001)
Here & There, Now & Then Anthology 1964-2001 (Rouseabout 2007)
Best of all Trades (Rouseabout 2009)
Renegade (Rouseabout 2011)
The Great Australian Groove (Rouseabout 2012)
Reverently (Restless Music 2013)
Hills of Assisi (Restless Music 2013)
Pathways of a Celtic Land (Restless Music 2013)
Singles
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rouser
rouser (ˈraʊzə(r)) [f. rouse v.1 + -er1.] 1. a. One who, or that which, rouses or stirs up.1611 Cotgr., Esveilleur,..a rowser, a raiser from sleepe. 1612 Shelton Quix. i. iii. vi, All this which I have depainted to thee, are inciters and rowsers of my mind. 1783 J. Young Crit. Gray's Elegy (1810) 44...
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Ray Beckett (journalist)
Before becoming a journalist he worked as a rouseabout in South Australia.
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leatherneck
ˈleather-neck, ˈleatherneck slang. [f. leather n. + neck n.1] 1. A sailor's name for a soldier, from the leather stock he used to wear.1890 Pall Mall G. 24 Jan. 2/1 He [the sailor] despises his friend the leather-neck for a lazy and luxurious dog. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Carry On! 27 A Royal marine is a ‘bu...
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Whitely King
He is featured in the folk song "The Shearer and the Rouseabout" by Joe Watson and the poem "Saint Peter" by Henry Lawson (later adapted into a folk song
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Jack Simpson (politician)
He attended state schools and worked as a rouseabout at shearing sheds from 1944 to 1947 and then as a French polisher from 1948 to 1955.
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Old Dart
Old Dart Austral. and N.Z. colloq. [Origin uncertain: cf. dart n. 7.] The ‘old country’; Great Britain, esp. England.1908 E. S. Sorenson Quinton's Rouseabout 206 Murty unexpectedly came in for something like {pstlg}800 by the death of a distant and almost forgotten relative in the old dart. 1933 Bul...
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Rachael Treasure
Two of her novels, The Stockmen and The Rouseabout, have been translated and published in German as Tal der Sehnsucht : Australien-saga(München : Blanvalet The Rouseabout (UK title: The Dare), Camberwell, Vic. : Viking, 2007.
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Verses, Popular and Humorous
"How the Land was Won"
"The Boss Over the Board"
"When the Ladies Come to the Shearing Shed"
"The Ballad of the Rouseabout"
"Years After the War in "Bill and Jim Fall Out"
"The Paroo"
"The Green-Hand Rouseabout"
"The Man from Waterloo"
"Saint Peter"
"The Stranger's Friend"
"The God-Forgotten
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Edward Sorenson
Queensland Swagman (1915)
A Backblocker's Pleasure Trip (1917)
The Mystery of Murrawang: A Tale of Two Stations (1917)
Short Story Collections
Quinton's Rouseabout
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In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses
Angus and Robertson in 1896, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Free Selector's Daughter", "Andy's Gone with Cattle", "Middleton's Rouseabout Trooper Campbell"
"The Sliprails and the Spur"
"Past Carin'"
"The Glass on the Bar"
"The Shanty on the Rise"
"The Vagabond"
"Sweeney"
"Middleton's Rouseabout
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1908 in Australian literature
Sorenson – Quinton's Rouseabout and Other Stories
Poetry
Arthur A. D.
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