manual
/ˈmæn.j(u)əl/ noun B2- Synonym of handbook.
- A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product. · The dishwasher isn't working; can you remember where we put the manual?
- A drill in the use of weapons, etc.
- An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.
- A keyboard on an organ.
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“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”
“How did you know, for example, that I did manual labour.
Thus began a grueling decade of severe poverty, exhausting manual labor, and endless financial struggle for the young couple.
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