Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sundowner"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sundowner
n 1: (Australia) a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown
2: (Brit) a drink taken at sundown
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