A person performing unskilled labour or doing odd jobs on a farm, especially in a shearing shed.
he'd worked as a rousie in a shearing gang
Example sentencesExamples
- The rousie was the only one that was getting paid while there was rain, so it was in the interest.
- The team of professional shearers, a rousie and presser, will be assisted by park staff is likely to finish around 4.30pm.
- My first job was as a rousie in a shearing gang.
- He filled the months until going to Otago University planting blackcurrent bushes and as a shearing gang rousie.
- You know the rule of the sheds: the last sheep of the run the rousies do.