| laborer | | |
| n. (person) | 1. jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer | someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor. |
| ~ agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer | a person who tills the soil for a living. |
| ~ bracero | a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II. |
| ~ cleaner | someone whose occupation is cleaning. |
| ~ day laborer, day labourer | a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages. |
| ~ digger | a laborer who digs. |
| ~ dishwasher | someone who washes dishes. |
| ~ navvy, peon, drudge, 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. |
| ~ hired hand, hired man, hand | a hired laborer on a farm or ranch.; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand" |
| ~ hod carrier, hodman | a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers. |
| ~ gipsy, gypsy, itinerant | a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment.; "itinerant traders" |
| ~ faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman | a person who fells trees. |
| ~ miner, mineworker | laborer who works in a mine. |
| ~ mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner | a worker who drives mules. |
| ~ platelayer, tracklayer | a workman who 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. |
| ~ dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore | a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port. |
| ~ fireman, stoker | a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship). |
| ~ woodcutter | cuts down trees and chops wood as a job. |
| ~ working man, working person, workingman, workman | an employee who performs manual or industrial labor. |
| ~ wrecker | someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job. |
| ~ yardman | a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns). |
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