What is "hewers"

Usage examples of "hewers".

It had its monarch the captain, its useless nobility the passengers, its technical and governing class, and its hewers of wood and drawers of water.

Frater Franz, the work-frater, shows us our responsibilities as hewers of wood and drawers of water.

But in those moments of tragic silence, When the wine and bread were passed, Came the reconciliation for us-- Us the ploughmen and the hewers of wood, Us the peasants, brothers of the peasant of Galilee-- To us came the Comforter And the consolation of tongues of flame!