Lexicographical Neighbors of Rouseabout
Literary usage of Rouseabout
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens (1906)
"MIDDLETON'S rouseabout TALL and freckled and sandy, Face of a country lout; This
was the picture of Andy, Middleton's rouseabout. Type of a coming nation, ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"rouseabout, n. a station-hand put on to any work, a Jack of all work, ... 19: "
It may be the rouseabout swiper who rode for the doctor that night, ..."
3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"rouseabout, n. a station-hand put on to any work, a Jack of all work, ... 19: "
It may be the rouseabout swiper who rode for the doctor that night, ..."
4. Cumner's Son: And Other South Sea Folk by Gilbert Parker (1910)
"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 ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"This saves the trouble of reeving the end of the rope VOL 25—10 through.
Large blocks of this kind are called rouseabout blocks, also viol blocks. ..."
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