单词 | hand-labour |
释义 | ˈhand-labour Labour or work of the hands, manual labour; † ‘art’ as opposed to nature; now, usually, manual as opposed to machine work.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Thess. 3 We wrought with our handelabour. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 548 Strong..as well by naturall situation as hand-labour. 1640Sanderson Serm. II. 176 St. Paul..at Corinth..maintained himself a long while together with his own hand⁓labour. 1832Veg. Subst. Food xvii. 385 The hoeing of a cane-field..was [formerly] always effected by hand labour. Hence ˈhand-ˌlabourer, a worker with his hands.
1598Florio, Manifattore..a hand-labourer. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 265 The mere hand-laborer is thrown out of employment. |

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