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labourer
Part of speech: NounOne who is engaged at coarse and toilsome work, requiring little skill.
Usage examples "labourer":- In fact, he was the first labourer in it in England. - "The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I", Thomas Clarkson.
- But to return once more to the honest Cotswold labourer. - "A Cotswold Village", J. Arthur Gibbs.
- In our native army the sepoy gets about double the wages of an ordinary day- labourer; and his duties, when well done, involve just enough of exercise to keep him in health. - "Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official", William Sleeman.