jackaroo

noun

1. (Australia, obsolete)A white man living outside of a white settlement.
2. (Australia)A trainee station manager or owner, working as a stockman or farm hand; formerly, a young man of independent means working at a station in a supernumerary capacity to gain experience.

   “But this is the tale of a Jackaroo that came from a foreign strand, / And the fight that he fought with Saltbush Bill, the King of the Overland.”

   “A Jackeroo lived, as a kind of gentleman apprentice, in the squatter′s or manager′s homestead, not in the men′s huts; but most of his daily work was done side by side with the working ‘hands’.”

   “Frequently the overseer would come to me and say a certain jackeroo was useless, and would never be any good, when the boy had only just started.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To work as a jackaroo.

   “Bill has gone jackarooing out west.”