A person who performs physical labour, usually as a means of employment; a manual worker, esp. one carrying out unskilled work.

A labourer, an unskilled worker. Obsolete.

Scottish. A labourer or porter. Cf. piner, n.2 Obsolete.

Chiefly in plural. A person employed in any manual or unskilled work; a labourer or workman.

A person who heaves (in various senses: see the verb); spec. a labourer employed in landing goods at a dockyard. (See also ballast heaver n. at b…

a handyman or general labourer; a gardener.ⓘ

son of toil (frequently in horny-handed son of toil): a labourer; spec. a manual labourer. Now often in humorous or ironic contexts.

A common workman or labourer; a farm-worker or harvester.

A person who hacks (see hack, v.1 1a 1b); a cutter, a slasher. Formerly also: †a person who hoes with a hack (cf. hack, v.1 2a) (obsolete)…

Now chiefly Indian English. A (usually local or indigenous) worker or labourer employed to do any of various (typically manual) tasks, esp. in an…

Australian slang. A person engaged in menial employment; spec. a sheep shearer.

A labourer; a peasant, esp. one who is Italian or of Italian descent.

Chiefly North American. A person who manually removes excavated material from a mine, quarry, etc.

An unskilled labourer.

A manual labourer; spec. a Mexican migrant worker in the United States, esp. (now historical) one admitted to the country on a limited visa through…

An indentured labourer or low-paid manual worker, esp. a migrant worker on a sisal plantation; (with plural agreement) such people collectively…

A Ugandan person working overseas, esp. one doing a low-paid or unskilled job. Cf. kyeyo, n.