labourer

Other forms: labourers

Definitions of labourer

1. noun

   someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
   synonyms: jack, laborer, manual laborer

   types:

   agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer

   a person who tills the soil for a living

   bracero

   a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II

   cleaner

   someone whose job involves tidying and removing dirt or filth

   day laborer, day labourer

   a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages

   digger

   a laborer who digs

   dishwasher

   someone who washes dishes

   drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon

   a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

   gandy dancer

   a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang

   gravedigger

   a person who earns a living by digging graves

   hewer

   a person who hews

   hand, hired hand, hired man

   a hired laborer on a farm or ranch

   hod carrier, hodman

   a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers

   gipsy, gypsy, itinerant

   a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment

   faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman

   a person who fells trees

   miner, mineworker

   laborer who works in a mine

   mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner

   a worker who drives mules

   platelayer, tracklayer

   a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks

   porter

   a person employed to carry luggage and supplies

   rail-splitter, splitter

   a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences

   sawyer

   one who is employed to saw wood

   section hand

   a laborer assigned to a section gang

   sprayer

   a worker who applies spray to a surface

   stacker

   a laborer who builds up a stack or pile

   steeplejack

   someone who builds or maintains very tall structures

   dock worker, dock-walloper, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore

   a laborer who loads and unloads ships at a waterfront

   fireman, stoker

   a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)

   woodcutter

   cuts down trees and chops wood as a job

   wrecker

   someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job

   yardman

   a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns)

   char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, woman

   a human female employed to do housework

   chimneysweep, chimneysweeper, sweep

   someone who cleans soot from chimneys

   coal miner, collier, pitman

   someone who works in a coal mine

   ditch digger, mud digger

   a laborer who digs ditches

   farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand

   a hired hand on a farm

   gold digger, gold miner, gold panner

   a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field

   drover, herder, herdsman

   someone who drives a herd

   housebreaker, housewrecker

   a wrecker of houses

   knacker

   someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them

   peasant

   one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

   placer miner

   a miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging

   prospector

   someone who explores an area for mineral deposits

   ranch hand

   a hired hand on a ranch

   redcap

   a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station

   scorer

   a logger who marks trees to be felled

   scourer

   someone who cleanses by scouring

   cropper, sharecrop farmer, sharecropper

   small farmers and tenants

   skycap

   a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport

   groom, hostler, ostler, stableboy, stableman

   someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

   street cleaner, street sweeper

   a worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department)

   strip miner

   a miner who does strip mining

   swagger, swaggie, swagman

   an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work

   tinker

   formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living

   trencher

   someone who digs trenches

   window cleaner

   someone who cleans windows for pay

   type of:

   working man, working person, workingman, workman

   an employee who performs manual or industrial labor