rouse-about

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Peter was "tall and freckled and sandy, face of a country lout", and, like Middleton's rouse-about, "hadn't any opinions, hadn't any ideas", but possessed sufficient instinct and common bushcraft with which, by hard slogging, to amass money.

My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916
You bet, mister; this is a miner or I'm a rouse-about, "Palmer Billy put in, with a nod towards Peters.

Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900