labourer vs galley slave

galley slave vs labourer

labourer and galley slave both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
labourer	Yes	No	No	No
galley slave	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, galley slave is a hyponym of labourer; that is, galley slave is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than labourer:

labourer: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
galley slave: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

Other hyponyms of labourer include agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, bracero, cleaner, day laborer, day labourer, digger, dishwasher, drudge, 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, stoker, woodcutter, wrecker, yardman.

labourer (noun)	galley slave (noun)
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor	a slave condemned to row in a galley
	a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

Difference between labourer and galley slave

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