Rouser

Definitions

1. Something very exciting or stimulating.
2. A surname.
3. One who rouses another from sleep.
4. A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
   archaic, colloquial
5. A roustabout.
   Australia

Equivalents

Examples

“They are all shearers, or at least they say⟳ they are. Some might be only ‘rousers.’”

“The shearers threw some blankets in / To make⟳ another swag, / The rousers gave a billycan / And brand new tucker bag; […]”

“The aim of the rouser is eventually to become⟳ a shearer via the medium of the learner’s pen, and in fact the rousie is really an apprentice shearer; but there is certainly a great gulf between the accomplished prince of the board⟳ and the miserable rouseabout in the strange new world of his first shed⟳.”

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