laborer vs stoker

stoker vs laborer

laborer and stoker both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
laborer	Yes	No	No	No
stoker	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, stoker is a hyponym of laborer; that is, stoker is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than laborer:

laborer: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
stoker: a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)

Other hyponyms of laborer include agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, bracero, cleaner, day laborer, day labourer, digger, dishwasher, drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon, gandy dancer, gravedigger, hewer, hand, hired hand, hired man, hod carrier, hodman, gipsy, gypsy, itinerant, faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman, miner, mineworker, mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner, platelayer, tracklayer, porter, rail-splitter, splitter, sawyer, section hand, sprayer, stacker, steeplejack, dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore, fireman, woodcutter, wrecker, yardman.

laborer (noun)	stoker (noun)
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor	a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
	a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)

Difference between laborer and stoker

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