farm hand

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noun

a person who works on a farm, especially a hired worker; hired hand.

Origin of farm hand

First recorded in 1835–45

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Related Words for farmhand

laborer, sharecropper, hireling, hand, drudge, peon, grunt, farmhand, rube, provincial, bumpkin, boor, rustic, hayseed, serf, hick, villein, cropper, planter, slave

Examples from the Web for farmhand

Contemporary Examples of farmhand

It was ugly, cantankerous, simple enough for any farmhand to understand and fix, and indomitable.
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Henry Ford
Richard Snow
May 14, 2013
My father was placed as a farmhand in exchange for room and board.
My Father, The Inglourious Basterd
Kim Masters
August 9, 2009

Historical Examples of farmhand

The farmhand had filled his box and disappeared around the corner of the house.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Bill was scrubbing the porch, and a farmhand was gathering bottles from the grass into a box.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Fowler was with Dr. Willis for three or four years as a farmhand.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
Various
Save for a bit of a roll in his gait, he might have passed for a farmhand.
Jack Harvey's Adventures
Ruel Perley Smith
Harvey had been a farmhand until he married the farmer's daughter.
In Pawn
Ellis Parker Butler

British Dictionary definitions for farmhand

farm hand

noun

a person who is hired to work on a farm

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Word Origin and History for farmhand

by 1835, from farm (n.) + hand (n.).