The Collaborative International Dictionary
manual laborer \manual laborer\ n. A person who works with the hands, rather than with the mind.
Syn: laborer, labourer.
Wiktionary
n. One who performs manual labor
WordNet
Usage examples of "manual laborer".
They jarred with the white-collar businessman image, for they were callused and scratchedthe hands of a manual laborer.
He was a beefy man, not fat but heavier than he'd have been if he were a manual laborer.
In actuality it had probably been a manual laborer, a field hand, with aspirations for something better.
A manual laborer, hazarded Jubal, or more likely an artisan: a man skilled with hands and strength, who had known recent tragedy.
However, others are more obvious, and if a sharp wife finds a card in her husbands pocket with one of the following occupations headmistress, erection and demolition expert, public relations, or even manual laborer she can usually assume the only thing getting made is himself.
To a manual laborer, having strong assistants was important, and none came cheaper than one's own male offspring.
Anteac had addressed herself sharply to the heavyset officer commanding the Fish Speaker escort, a glowering woman with low brows and the muscles of a manual laborer.
As far back as the twentieth century it was observed that the manual laborer who managed to promote himself from cold-water flat to a ranch house with a VCR and a sports car could still feel pangs of envy toward his neighbor with the jacuzzi and the thirty-two-foot cabin cruiser.
For example, she helped us pick out bright yellow wallpaper for the breakfast room, but we put it on ourselves, an experience that reaffirmed my limitations as a manual laborer.