day labourer

an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day

Words nearby day labourer

For the past three years, the latter has been in the United States, working as a day-labourer on farms and on Western railroads.

Northern Travel |Bayard Taylor
The day-labourer really knows nothing to take the place of beer.

Change in the Village |(AKA George Bourne) George Sturt
A person who carries a load; a porter or day-labourer in India and China.

The Sailor's Word-Book |William Henry Smyth
Nicolas-Juste Aubain, day-labourer, was afraid both of displeasing Sorel and of injuring these gentlemen.

Bouvard and Pcuchet, part 2 |Gustave Flaubert

My uncle would have been very much offended at my marrying a day-labourer's daughter, and would not have invited me to Luscombe.

Kenelm Chillingly, Complete |Edward Bulwer-Lytton