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ˌday-ˈlabourer
A labourer who is hired to work at a certain rate of wages per day; one who earns his living by day labour.
1548Act 2–3 Edw. VI, c. 13 §7 Other than such as beene common day labourers. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 104 Should a king then..prefer a mean artificer or a day-labourer before himself? 1632Milton L'Allegro 109 His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end. 1699Poor Man's Plea 16 In the Southern parts of England, where a Day-labourer can gain 9s. per Week for his Labour. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 43 It makes me sweat like a day-labourer. a1853Robertson Lect. Cor. xxiii. (1878) 171 A nation may exist without an astronomer, or philosopher, but a day-labourer is essential to the existence of man.
So ˈday-ˈlabouring ppl. a., that works for daily wages.
1739Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 313 The day-labouring actors. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXV. 213 Simpson is a day-labouring man. |