Definition of "rouseabout"

A wool store is adjacent to the shed; and a short distance away are the superintendents quarters; the shearers, and the “rouse-about” men’s huts.

1872 August 31, “A Tour to the South”, in Town & Country Journal, pages 272–3

A rough coffin was made during the night and at the grave half-a-dozen of the line men with Strangway, Stanley, Talmud, the doctor and a couple of rouseabouts constituted the mourners.

1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XIV

He was the general rouseabout for the town really. Whenever they needed a dirty job done Nat was on the list.

2013 July 14, Kerry Staight, “Loving restoration of history from the outback dust”, in ABC News