night-hand

Noun

night hand (plural night hands)

1. A laborer who works the overnight shift.
   • When disorderly persons are filling the streets, the night sets are steadily at their work. In point of fact, our night-hands are quite as steady and respectable as any other.1834, Factories Inquiry Commission: Supplementary Report of the Central Board of H. Maj. Commissioners appointed to collect Information in the Manufacturing Districts, as to the Employment of...