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labourer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun labourer has 1 sense
- labourer(n = noun.person) jack, laborer, manual laborer - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor; Array has particulars: agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, bracero, cleaner, day laborer, day labourer, digger, dishwasher, drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon, gandy dancer, gravedigger, hewer, hand, hired hand, hired man, hod carrier, hodman, gipsy, gypsy, itinerant, faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman, miner, mineworker, mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner, platelayer, tracklayer, porter, rail-splitter, splitter, sawyer, section hand, sprayer, stacker, steeplejack, dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore, fireman, stoker, woodcutter, wrecker, yardman
is a kind of working man, working person, workingman, workman
Derived form verb labour1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
labourer, n. (US laborer)
1 a person doing unskilled, usu. manual, work for wages.
2 a person who labours.
1 a person doing unskilled, usu. manual, work for wages.
2 a person who labours.
Etymology
ME f. OF laboureur (as LABOUR)
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