worker

One who works at a particular occupation or activity.

One who does manual or industrial labor.

A member of the working class.

A member of a colony of social insects such as ants, bees, wasps, or termites, usually a sterile or sexually immature female but in termites an individual of either sex, that performs specialized work such as building the nest, collecting and storing food, and feeding other members of the colony.

One who or that which works; a laborer; a toiler; a performer; a doer.

In entomology, the neuter or undeveloped female of various social hymenopterous and a few other insects, as bees, ants, and termites, which collects pollen, makes honey, builds or fabricates cells or a nest, stores up food, cares for the young, herds and milks the aphids kept as cows, and performs other services for the community of which it is a member.

Maker; creator.

In a carding-machine, one of the urchins, or small card-covered cylinders.

A leather-workers’ two-handled knife, used in scraping hides.