rouse¹ /rowz/

1. To stir up
2. To awaken
3. To start, as from cover or lair
4. To excite
5. To put in action
6. To haul in (eg a cable)
7. To disturb (rare)
8. To shake the feathers of (orig reflexive; obsolete)
9. To ruffle, set up (obsolete)

1. To awake
2. To be excited to action
3. To shake oneself (obsolete)
4. To rise from cover (rare)
5. To stand erect (of hair; Shakespeare)

1. A shake of the feathers, body, etc (obsolete)
2. Reveille

rousˈant adjective (heraldry)

Rising as a bird

rouseˈabout noun (Aust and NZ)

An odd-job man on a sheep station

rouseˈment noun (US)

Religious excitement

rousˈer noun

1. A person or thing that rouses
2. Anything astonishing

rousˈing adjective

1. Awakening
2. Stirring
3. Vigorously active
4. Great
5. Violent

rousˈingly adverb

roust transitive verb

1. To stir up
2. To rout out

To move energetically

roustˈabout noun

1. A wharf labourer (N American)
2. A person who does odd jobs (N American)
3. A rouseabout (N American and Aust)
4. A general labourer employed on an oil rig or in a circus

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