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Answer for the clue "Grunt ", 4 letters:
peon

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Usage examples of peon.

She bribed the peons to help her, she might have got the information out of them.

Lowell textile mills, of the Spanish-American war as seen by the Cubans, the conquest of the Philippines as seen by black soldiers on Luzon, the Gilded Age as seen by southern farmers, the First World War as seen by socialists, the Second World War as seen by pacifists, the New Deal as seen by blacks in Harlem, the postwar American empire as seen by peons in Latin America.

The CATAPEZ, as he was called in Chilian, had two natives called PEONS, and a boy about twelve years of age under him.

He shall escort your diligencia right into Sulaco with some of our railway peons.

Jadine wanted to laugh out loud at the notion of her living like a peon, with a stairstep of children clinging to her skirts while Juan sat in the shade of a tree with his friends drinking from a jug of mescal.

So the bootleggers get one of their peons to get rid of the rest of it.

Often some capricious winding would bring the column in two parallel lines, and the CATAPEZ could speak to his PEONS across a crevasse not two fathoms wide, though two hundred deep, which made between them an inseparable gulf.

The cacique does not wish his laborers to acquire land in their own right, for he well knows that if they did so they would become self-supporting, and it would cease to be possible for him to hold them as peons, as is commonly done at present.

Taft, laboured to frame a set of laws under which we might hope by faith and patience, by justice and hard work, to raise wild men and primitive peons to the level of a sound and enlightened people.

Though unlicensed, he could steal and lay his own plumbing, do all the electric fixtures in a house, and hire five peons at slave wages to install a septic tank that would not overflow until the day after Joe died or left town.

Segura's peones were running the bull, dragging their capes behind them, letting the animal chase them to the burladero shelters.

When Blanquet, who was the greatest peon de brega who ever lived, worked under the orders of Granero he told me that on the day of Manolo Granero’s death, when they stopped in the chapel on the way to the ring, the odor of death was so strong on Manolo that it almost made Blanquet sick.

The Vagabonds, criollos, the mountain-dwelling Indian peons, the desperadoes from the mining-country up north, these were only permitted to gather in the City on certain occasions, and an auto da fé was one of them.

A young Santo Domingan is born into life as a peon, engineer, artisan, or soldier.

The man looked exactly as startled as Earle felt: just how friendly would an amazon get with a peon, even in illusion?