hewers of wood and drawers of water

noun[plural only]1

1. •
   Those who drudge, or are made to work hard; those who do menial or servile work at the behest of others; physical labourers.

   • And the Princes said vnto them, Let them liue, (but let them bee hewers of wood, and drawers of water, vnto all the Congregation,) as the Princes had promised them. — 1611