English > manual laborer: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor. |
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| Synonyms | laborer, labourer, jack |
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| Narrower | agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer | A person who tills the soil for a living |
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| bracero | A Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages / shortages during World War II |
| cleaner | someone whose occupation is cleaning |
| day laborer, day labourer | A laborer who works by the day |
| digger | A laborer who digs |
| dishwasher | someone who washes dishes |
| drudge, peon, navvy, galley slave | A laborer who is obliged to do menial work |
| gandy dancer | A laborer in a railroad maintenance gang |
| gravedigger | A person who earns a living by digging graves |
| hewer | A person who hews / hews |
| hired hand, hand, hired man | A hired laborer on a farm or ranch |
| hod carrier, hodman | A laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers |
| itinerant, gypsy, gipsy | A laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment |
| lumberman, lumberjack, logger, feller, faller | A person who fells trees |
| miner, mineworker | laborer who works in a mine |
| muleteer, mule skinner, mule driver, skinner | A worker who drives mules |
| platelayer, tracklayer | A workman who lays / lays / lays and repairs railroad tracks |
| porter | A person employed to carry luggage and supplies |
| rail-splitter, splitter | A laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences |
| sawyer | One who is employed to saw wood |
| section hand | A laborer assigned to a section gang |
| sprayer | A worker who applies spray to a surface |
| stacker | A laborer who builds up a stack or pile |
| steeplejack | someone who builds or maintains very tall structures |
| stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper | A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port |
| stoker, fireman | A laborer who tends fires / fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) |
| woodcutter | cuts down trees and chops wood as a job |
| wrecker | someone who demolishes or dismantles / dismantles buildings as a job |
| yardman | A laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns) |
| Broader | workman, workingman, working man, working person | An employee who performs manual or industrial labor |
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| Spanish | mano de obra, obrero, peón |
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| Catalan | peó, treballador |
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