rouser

plural rousers

1. Something very exciting or stimulating.
2. One who rouses another from sleep or passivity.
3. archaiccolloquialA stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
4. AustraliaA roustabout.

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

   1896, Henry Lawson, “Stragglers”, in While the Billy Boils, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson […], →OCLC, page 85

   2 more examples

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

   a. 1964, Edward Harrington, “[In Faraway Places] The Swagless Swaggie”, in William [Rossa] Cole, editor, Rough Men, Tough Men: Poems of Action and Adventure, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, published 1969, →LCCN, page 150

   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.

   1967, Graham Jenkin, Two Years on Bardunyah Station: Being an Account of the Experiences of a Jackaroo, Together with Some Poems, etc., Seacombe Heights, South Australia: Pitjantjara Publishers, page 66

plural Rousers

1. A surname.