hewers
Those who chop
Hewers is the plural of hewer, a person who cuts or chops, especially one who extracts raw materials through physical labor.
The word appears most often in the phrase hewers of wood and drawers of water, meaning those who perform menial or manual labor—the working class who do the hard physical tasks that support society.
Bladed tool for chopping
- timberWood for construction
- lumberjackProfessional tree cutter
- fellingDowning standing timber
- logsCut wood sections
forest · woodland · hardwood · splitting · chopping · cordwood · firewood · sawyer
Pointed digging implement
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- oreMetal-bearing rock
- shaftNarrow vertical passage
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
excavation · mineral · vein · seam · underground · colliery · pitman · rockface
axe
Bladed tool for chopping
- timberWood for construction
- lumberjackProfessional tree cutter
- fellingDowning standing timber
logs · forest · woodland · hardwood · splitting · chopping · cordwood · firewood · sawyer · broadaxe
pickaxe
Pointed digging implement
tunnel · excavation · mineral · vein · seam · underground · colliery · pitman · rockface · drill
chisel
Edged carving implement
- quarryPit for extracting rock
- masonBuilder using brick, mortar
- stonecutterOne who shapes rock
granite · marble · alabaster · sculpture · carving · engrave · etch · incise · bas-relief · relief
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
drudgery · exertion · backbreaking · physical · effort · endurance · calluses · laborious · working-class · wage
- underlingsunderling, underlings, subordinate, minions, minion