Word Meanings - UNDERLABORER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.

Related words: (words related to UNDERLABORER)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• LOCKER
  1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
• LOCKET
  1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
• SUBORDINATE
  1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was
• LOCKEN
  of Lock. Chaucer.
• LABORER
  One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
• ASSISTANT
  Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. Farrow. (more info) 1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and
• LOCKED-JAW
  See LOCKJAW
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• GLOCKENSPIEL
  An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.
• UNDERLABORER
  An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.
• UNDERLOCKER
  A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.
• SLOCK; SLOCKEN
  To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.
• LANDLOCKED
  Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon. (more info) 1. Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land.
• DAY-LABORER
  One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith.