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Definition of Laborer
1. Noun. Someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor.
Specialized synonyms: 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 Worker, Dock-walloper, Docker, Dockhand, Dockworker, Loader, Longshoreman, Lumper, Stevedore, Fireman, Stoker, Woodcutter, Wrecker, Yardman
Generic synonyms: Working Man, Working Person, Workingman, Workman
Derivative terms: Labor, Labor, Labour
Definition of Laborer
1. n. One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
Definition of Laborer
1. Noun. One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laborer
1. one that labors [n -S] - See also: labors
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laborer
Literary usage of Laborer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"Further: " The certificate herein provided for shall entitle the Chinese laborer,
to whom the same is issued, to return to and re-enter the United States ..."
2. Principles of Labor Legislation by John Rogers Commons, John Bertram Andrews (1920)
"On the other side, the laborer is a creditor to the extent that the employer ...
THE laborer AS DEBTOR If we classify the legal relations of the laborer as ..."
3. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1877)
"Jackson : The laborer generally gets one-fourth of the crop aud rations. ...
When the laborer feeds himself, and does all the work, growing and gathering ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"404, 75 NE 508 ; —$3000—laborer—capacity for work reduced by reason of ...
647; —$1000—laborer, 24 years of age — leg broken in 2 places between knee and ..."
5. Colonial Records of Pennsylvania by Pennsylvania (1852)
"Wheelwright; John Howell, laborer; Mordecai Balderstone, Weaver; ... laborer,
now or late of the Township of Middletown ; And Thomas Martin, Cooper; ..."
6. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1900)
"... And Alexander Rickey, laborer, now or late of the Township of Lower Makefield;
Andrew De Normandie, Practitioner in Medicine; Benjamin Brown, Carpenter; ..."
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