Knockabout

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Knockabout

(n.) A small yacht, generally from fifteen to twenty-five feet in length, having a mainsail and a jib. All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard. The original type was twenty-one feet in length. The next larger type is called a raceabout.
(n.) A knockabout performer or performance.
(n.) A man hired on a sheep station to do odd jobs.
(a.) Marked by knocking about or roughness.
(a.) Of noisy and violent character.
(a.) Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither.
(a.) That does odd jobs; -- said of a class of hands or laborers on a sheep station.