spadeworkers

Noun

spadeworker (plural spadeworkers)

1. One who does spadework, now especially in the figurative sense of preparatory work.
   • Like master like man. The peasants and artisans follow their neighbors; the spade-workers voting with Bismarck and Falkenstein, the hand-workers with Jacoby and Rosenkranz.1868, William Hepworth Dixon, chapter 4, in Spiritual Wives, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 37