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['swægmәn]
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    swagman
    [ noun ]
    an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work
    <noun.person>


    Swagman \Swag"man\, n.
    A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called
    also {swagsman}, {swagger}, and {swaggie}.
    [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

    Once a jolly swagman sat beside a billabong
    Under the shade of a coolibah tree.
    And he sang as he sat and watched his billy boiling,
    `Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?' --[Waltzing
    Matilda, an
    Australian
    tune.]
    [PJC]

    Sundowner \Sun"down`er\, n.
    A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from
    his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and
    a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also {traveler}
    and {swagman} (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

    Sundowners, -- men who loaf about till sunset, and then
    come in with the demand for unrefusable rations.
    --Francis
    Adams.
    [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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