hewer

Etymology

From hew + -er.

noun

1. One who hews.
   The Larrakiahs at Port Darwin seem to have identified themselves with the white population, and became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the settlement. 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 225
   By certain arrangements in the former method the miner not only gets the coal but makes all proppings and repairs, so that the face moves much more slowly than with the other method where the hewers devote all their time to getting the coal […] 1904, Kellogg Durland, Among the Fife Miners, page 62
   All three groups were paid less per shift than coal miners. In 1905, for instance, hewers in coal mines received an average 3.79 marks per shift; in zinc and lead, 3.10 marks; in iron, 2.36 marks. 1975, Lawrence Schofer, The Formation of a Modern Labor Force, Upper Silesia, 1865-1914