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Definition of crown labourer in English: crown labourernoun Australian historical A convict. a crown labourer could be assigned to a free settler Example sentencesExamples - There are, at this present time, in the year 1826, upwards of 25,000 male convicts, able-bodied crown labourers.
- Only those willing and capable of performing the ordinary work of a Crown labourer will be received.
- His Crown labourers drew a prize when they entered his service, seldom leaving it, if well behaved, but as free men.
- If those 10,000 crown labourers were employed in clearing and fencing farms, they would clear and fence a sufficient quantity of land every year for several thousand farms.
- The settler will in the second year of his settlement, require an additional crown labourer.
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