working man

Noun
  1. An employee who performs manual or industrial labor (synset 110810861)
    is a type of: employee - a worker who is hired to perform a job
    subtypes:
    • excavator - a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying
    • blaster, chargeman - a workman employed to blast with explosives
    • fuller - a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living
    • gas fitter - a workman who installs and repairs gas fixtures and appliances
    • guest worker, guestworker - a person with temporary permission to work in another country
    • heaver - a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard)
    • jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
    • lacer - a workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding)
    • lather - a workman who puts up laths
    • luddite - one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
    • factory worker, mill-hand - a workman in a mill or factory
    • mover - workman employed by a moving company
    • bagger, boxer, packer - a workman employed to pack things into containers
    • paster - a workman who pastes
    • disinfestation officer, rat-catcher - a workman employed to destroy or drive away vermin
    • road mender, roadman - a workman who is employed to repair roads
    • roundsman - a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on)
    • scratcher - a workman who uses a tool for scratching
    • shearer - a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles
    • sponger - a workman employed to collect sponges
    • stamper - a workman whose job is to form or cut out by applying a mold or die (either by hand or by operating a stamping machine)
    • utility man - a workman expected to serve in any capacity when called on
    • warehouseman, warehouser - a workman who manages or works in a warehouse
    • wetter - a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process
    same as: working person, workingman, workman

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