Someone paid for completing a task rather than by the hour or day. A piece-worker. Also, a laborer who uses a flail to thresh corn.
"If our greedy Patrons hold us to such hard conditions, they will make some of us at last turne Taskers, Costermongers, sell Ale or worse."
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).
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