rouser

noun

1. Something very exciting or stimulating.
2. One who rouses another from sleep.
3. (archaic, colloquial)A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
4. (Australia)A roustabout.

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

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

   “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.”

name

1. A surname.