manual laborer

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manual laborer - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual laborlaborer, labourer, jackagricultural laborer, agricultural labourer - a person who tills the soil for a livingbracero - a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War IIcleaner - someone whose occupation is cleaningday laborer, day labourer - a laborer who works by the day; for daily wagesdigger - a laborer who digsdishwasher - someone who washes dishesnavvy, peon, drudge, galley slave - a laborer who is obliged to do menial workgandy dancer - a laborer in a railroad maintenance ganggravedigger - a person who earns a living by digging graveshewer - a person who hewshired hand, hired man, hand - a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand"hod carrier, hodman - a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayersgipsy, gypsy, itinerant - a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment; "itinerant traders"faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman - a person who fells treesminer, mineworker - laborer who works in a minemule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner - a worker who drives mulesplatelayer, tracklayer - a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracksporter - a person employed to carry luggage and suppliesrail-splitter, splitter - a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fencessawyer - one who is employed to saw woodsection hand - a laborer assigned to a section gangsprayer - a worker who applies spray to a surfacestacker - a laborer who builds up a stack or pilesteeplejack - someone who builds or maintains very tall structuresdock worker, docker, dockhand, dock-walloper, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore - a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a portfireman, stoker - a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)woodcutter - cuts down trees and chops wood as a jobworking man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial laborwrecker - someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a jobyardman - a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns)