day laborer

Two-and-twenty years ago, Sandy McGregor worked as a day-laborer in a shipyard, at three and sixpence per day.

I'm nothing but an ordinary day-laborer, a plain Mick, a sort of a Wop, obeying orders.

He is at most times a day-laborer, slouchy in his bearing and slovenly in his dress.

His was a finer nature than theirs; he was a gentleman, thank God, and no day-laborer.

Perhaps he may be even worse; a common day-laborer of the parish.