hewers of wood and drawers of water

Language: en

Meaning: Those whodrudge, or are made to work hard; those who domenialorservilework at thebehestof others;physicallabourers.1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Joshua9:21, column 1:And the Princes ſaid vnto them, Let them liue, (but let them beehewers of wood, and drawers of water, vnto all the Congregation,) as the Princes had promiſed them.1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Joshua9:23, column 1:Now therefore ye are curſed, and there ſhall none of you bee freed from being bondmen, andhewers of wood, and drawers of water, for the houſe of my God.1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Joshua9:27, column 1:And Ioſhua made them that day,hewers of wood, and drawers of waterfor the Congregation, and for the Altar of theLord, euen vnto this day, in the place which he ſhould chooſe.1922,Eleanour Sinclair Rohde,The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page13:But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of thehewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?1991, Martin Ohaeri Ijere,Women in Nigerian Economy, page41:All these groups are among thehewers of wood and drawers of waterwhom Marx assured that they would have nothing but their chains to lose if they rose against their oppressors.

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