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day labourer

noun

  1. an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day


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He worked fiercer than ever—harder than the day-labourer—at his place of business.

A gentleman is now living in that neighbourhood, with whom the old man formerly worked as a common day-labourer in the fields.

Nicolas-Juste Aubain, day-labourer, was afraid both of displeasing Sorel and of injuring these gentlemen.

Never, sir, thank Heaven; but I have worked as a day-labourer.

He as much believed the white-bearded stranger to be a lawyer as that he himself was a day-labourer.

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