manual laborer

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A person who works with the hands, rather than with the mind.

Thesaurus

Noun

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manual laborer - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor laborer, labourer, jack 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 occupation is cleaning day laborer, day labourer - a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages digger - a laborer who digs dishwasher - someone who washes dishes navvy, peon, drudge, galley slave - 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 hired 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 bricklayers gipsy, 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 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 vessels in a port 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 working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial labor wrecker - someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job yardman - a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns)