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What is another word for hewers?

Pronunciation: [hjˈuːəz] (IPA)

Hewers refer to individuals who work with tools to chop and shape wood or stone. There are several synonyms that can be used to describe these workers, including carpenters, woodcutters, masons, stonecutters, and loggers. Carpenters are experts in constructing wooden structures, while woodcutters are responsible for chopping down trees and preparing the wood for construction. Masons and stonecutters specialize in shaping and placing stones for building purposes. Loggers focus on harvesting and processing timber for commercial purposes. These various types of hewers are crucial to the construction industry, working tirelessly to create the framework for the world around us.
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Some kinds of workmen, especially coal-hewers, and iron-puddlers, earn twice that amount in good years, and are in fact better paid than schoolmasters, ministers of religion, and upper clerks.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
This was noble and chivalrous language and it loses none of its force when one recollects that many of the platforms in Ulster were ringing at the time with denunciations of "our hereditary enemies" and with references to Irish Catholics as "hewers of wood and drawers of water," "the men whom we hate and despise."
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
The people of the Border States were thus mainly composed of small land-owners, scattered throughout the country; they tilled their small farms for themselves, were hewers of their own wood, and drawers of their own water, and for generations remained accustomed to and skillful in the use of the rifle.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt

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