Gibʹeonite (4 syl., g hard)
. A slave’s slave, a workman’s labourer, a farmer’s understrapper, or Jack-of-all-work. The Gibeonites were made “hewers of wood and drawers of water” to the Israelites. (Josh. ix. 27.)
“And Giles must trudge, whoever gives command,
A Gibeonite, that serves them all by turn.”
Bloomfield: Farmer’s Boy.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.