labourer

noun

1. British standard spelling of laborer.

   “This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.”

   “By the mid-19th century, the typical village was sharply divided between the landowning class and the landless, voteless and largely illiterate labourers.”