manual laborer
Noun
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Someone who works with their hands;
Someone engaged in manual labor (synset 110260997)is a type of: working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial laborsubtypes:- 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
- drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon - 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
- hand, hired hand, hired man - a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
- 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
- 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 worker, dock-walloper, 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
- 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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