labourer vs section hand

section hand vs labourer

labourer and section hand both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
labourer	Yes	No	No	No
section hand	Yes	No	No	No

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

labourer: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
section hand: a laborer assigned to a section gang

Other hyponyms of labourer 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, sprayer, stacker, steeplejack, dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore, fireman, stoker, woodcutter, wrecker, yardman.

labourer (noun)	section hand (noun)
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor	a laborer assigned to a section gang

Difference between labourer and section hand

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