dataler

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A worker who is hired and paid by the day, especially an underground mine worker.

Word forms

dataler datalers daytaler

Etymology

From a dialectal form of day tale + -er, as the salary is told by the day; the first element is perhaps analogous to Icelandic dagatal.

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