Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A laborer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A laborer.
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- noun obsolete A
labourer .
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Examples
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They figure in Chaucer's narrative, because Chaucer _loves_ them; he loves his plowman, "a true swinker and a good," who has strength enough and to spare in his two arms, and helps his neighbours for nothing; he suffers at the thought of the muddy lanes along which his poor parson must go in winter, through the rain, to visit a distant cottage.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Someone who will do a job that no one else will, according to NPR's Says You.
September 19, 2015