section hand vs laborer

section hand and laborer both are nouns.

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

As nouns, laborer is a hypernym of section hand; that is, laborer is a word with a broader meaning than section hand:

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

Other hypernyms of section hand include jack, labourer, manual laborer.

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