Definitions of manual laborer
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someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
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examples:
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Paul Bunyan
a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada
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Ali Baba
the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment
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types:
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agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer
a person who tills the soil for a living
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bracero
a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II
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cleaner
someone whose occupation is cleaning
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day laborer, day labourer
a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages
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digger
a laborer who digs
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dishwasher
someone who washes dishes
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drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon
a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
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gandy dancer
a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang
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gravedigger
a person who earns a living by digging graves
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hewer
a person who hews
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hand, hired hand, hired man
a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
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hod carrier, hodman
a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers
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gipsy, gypsy, itinerant
a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
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faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman
a person who fells trees
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miner, mineworker
laborer who works in a mine
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mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner
a worker who drives mules
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platelayer, tracklayer
a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks
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porter
a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
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rail-splitter, splitter
a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences
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sawyer
one who is employed to saw wood
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section hand
a laborer assigned to a section gang
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sprayer
a worker who applies spray to a surface
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stacker
a laborer who builds up a stack or pile
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steeplejack
someone who builds or maintains very tall structures
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dock worker, dock-walloper, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore
a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
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fireman, stoker
a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
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woodcutter
cuts down trees and chops wood as a job
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wrecker
someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
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yardman
a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns)
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char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, woman
a human female employed to do housework
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chimneysweep, chimneysweeper, sweep
someone who cleans soot from chimneys
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coal miner, collier, pitman
someone who works in a coal mine
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ditch digger, mud digger
a laborer who digs ditches
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farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand
a hired hand on a farm
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gold digger, gold miner, gold panner
a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field
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drover, herder, herdsman
someone who drives a herd
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housebreaker, housewrecker
a wrecker of houses
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knacker
someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
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peasant
one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
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placer miner
a miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging
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prospector
someone who explores an area for mineral deposits
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ranch hand
a hired hand on a ranch
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redcap
a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station
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scorer
a logger who marks trees to be felled
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scourer
someone who cleanses by scouring
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cropper, sharecrop farmer, sharecropper
small farmers and tenants
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skycap
a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport
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groom, hostler, ostler, stableboy, stableman
someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses
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street cleaner, street sweeper
a worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department)
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strip miner
a miner who does strip mining
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swagger, swaggie, swagman
an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work
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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
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trencher
someone who digs trenches
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window cleaner
someone who cleans windows for pay
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type of:
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working man, working person, workingman, workman
an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
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Paul Bunyan
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