dataler

English

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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.

Noun

dataler (plural datalers) (historical)

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

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