workling

Noun

1. One who is employed or who works; worker.
   • Among its trophies it can point to penitent blasphemers, reclaimed drunkards, reformed prostitutes, and awakened worklings. - 1857, Thomas Hughes Milner, The Christian advocate, ed. by T.H. Milner - Page 171:
   • Not into land's expansion, Not to the miser's chest, Not to the princely mansion, Not to the blazoned crest, Not to the sordid workling, Not to the knavish clown, Not to the haughty tyrant, Cometh n blessing down. -...
   • The worklings can be seen on the slopes of the koppie in the left background Kamiesberg - which Fannin visited Fannin 's Mine today. - 1978, South Africa. Dept. of Education. Adult Education Division, Lantern - Volumes...