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