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LABORER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
Synonyms:
jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("laborer" is a kind of...):
working man; working person; workingman; workman (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "laborer"):
yardman (a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns))
wrecker (someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job)
woodcutter (cuts down trees and chops wood as a job)
fireman; stoker (a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship))
dock-walloper; dock worker; docker; dockhand; dockworker; loader; longshoreman; lumper; stevedore (a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port)
steeplejack (someone who builds or maintains very tall structures)
stacker (a laborer who builds up a stack or pile)
sprayer (a worker who applies spray to a surface)
section hand (a laborer assigned to a section gang)
sawyer (one who is employed to saw wood)
rail-splitter; splitter (a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences)
porter (a person employed to carry luggage and supplies)
platelayer; tracklayer (a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks)
mule driver; mule skinner; muleteer; skinner (a worker who drives mules)
miner; mineworker (laborer who works in a mine)
faller; feller; logger; lumberjack; lumberman (a person who fells trees)
gipsy; gypsy; itinerant (a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment)
hod carrier; hodman (a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers)
hand; hired hand; hired man (a hired laborer on a farm or ranch)
hewer (a person who hews)
gravedigger (a person who earns a living by digging graves)
gandy dancer (a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang)
drudge; galley slave; navvy; peon (a laborer who is obliged to do menial work)
dishwasher (someone who washes dishes)
digger (a laborer who digs)
day laborer; day labourer (a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages)
cleaner (someone whose occupation is cleaning)
bracero (a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II)
agricultural laborer; agricultural labourer (a person who tills the soil for a living)
Derivation:
labor (strive and make an effort to reach a goal)
labor (work hard)
Context examples:
Both the foresters and the laborers had risen from their bench, and Dame Eliza and the travelling doctor had flung themselves between the two parties with soft words and soothing gestures, when the door of the Pied Merlin was flung violently open, and the attention of the company was drawn from their own quarrel to the new-comer who had burst so unceremoniously upon them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The remaining forester and the two laborers were also ready for the road, and the rest of the company turned to the blankets which Dame Eliza and the maid had laid out for them upon the floor.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Next to him sat Hordle John, and beside him three other rough unkempt fellows with tangled beards and matted hair—free laborers from the adjoining farms, where small patches of freehold property had been suffered to remain scattered about in the heart of the royal demesne.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
