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Laborer

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.

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Cleaner 76% connected

One who, or that which, cleans.

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Digger 76% connected

One who, or that which, digs.

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Dishwasher 76% connected

One who, or that which, washes dishes.

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Drudge 76% connected

To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.

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Faller 76% connected

One who, or that which, falls.

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Feller 76% connected

One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.

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Gipsy 76% connected

See Gypsy.

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Gravedigger 76% connected

A digger of graves.

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Gypsy 76% connected

One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia,…

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Hand 76% connected

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

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Hewer 76% connected

One who hews.

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Itinerant 76% connected

Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler.

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Loader 76% connected

One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.

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Logger 76% connected

One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i.

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Lumper 76% connected

The European eelpout; -- called also lumpen.

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Miner 76% connected

One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs milita…

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Muleteer 76% connected

One who drives mules.

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Navvy 76% connected

Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc.

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Peon 76% connected

See Poon.

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Porter 76% connected

A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.

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Sawyer 76% connected

One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.

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Skinner 76% connected

One who skins.

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Splitter 76% connected

One who, or that which, splits.

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Stevedore 76% connected

One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

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Stoker 76% connected

One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine fo…

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Woodcutter 76% connected

A person who cuts wood.

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Wrecker 76% connected

One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.

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Jack 92% connected

A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves en…

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