rouseabout

Behind them Tom, the garden rouseabout, finished filling the big water truck from the bore-drain pump, then started the engine.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

Near the mausoleum he noticed two new graves, old Tom, the garden rouseabout, and the wife of one of the stockmen, who had been on the payroll since 1946.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

Where the two stockmen and Tom, the garden rouseabout, stayed no one knew, but Mrs. Smith, Minnie and Cat had friends in Gilly who put them up.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

So they had dropped in to see old George, the rouseabout, and have a yarn with him, or, if there were no signs of the weather clearing, to consider the question of work in the wool-shed.

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

I think John the Baptist was a rouseabout, don't you?

Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

Joe Slocombe, the man who acted as groom and rouseabout, was waiting for me at the entrance gate.

My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

The next morning, at breakfast-time, a rouseabout brought us a piece of paper which had been nailed to the sandal-tree.

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Eversofar, being weak and old, gave in, and Billy became a little delirious -- he has denied it, but Bingong says it is so; yet he pulled himself together as became the leader of an expedition, and did what he could for Eversofar until the rouseabout came with food and water.

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

From the rouseabout we found that Eversofar and Bingong were also gone.

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

We waited twelve hours, and were about to go, leaving a mark behind us to show we had been there, when we saw the rouseabout and his exhausted horse coming slowly through the bluebush to us.

Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897