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farmhand

farmhand

8 3.0
A person paid to work on a farm doing hard work
  • noun
  • /ˈfɑrmˌhænd/
translation icon : peón agrícola
  • The farmer employs several farmhands to help with the harvest every autumn.
  • a former farmhand
  • a young farmhand
  • a Mexican farmhand

And I started out as a farmhand and then I worked, they had a migrant worker, I guess, and we shared a room for a while, Latino gentlemen.

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Examples

  • At the age of fifteen, after finishing elementary school, Schneider became a farmhand for a rich farmer in his hometown.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Anthony Pennes is a farmhand who suffers from spina bifida, but that hasn't stopped him.

    Blog text (2)
  • But does he look like a farmhand to you?

  • Anyway, could you get my bags, farmhand, please?

  • Her father's a farmhand and he only has the one foot.

  • You worked hard like the other farmhands, but you were different.

  • One of the farmhands told me.

  • I think we come on about the same year, him as a farmhand, me as a foreman.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • We got three new farmhands.

  • With all the farmhands gone, I can't do everything around here myself.

Synonyms

hand
vsfarmhand
4.9

A worker who does physical work on a ship or farm

is specific to farm employment and physical outdoor tasks rather than general crews
laborer
vsfarmhand
  • US
68 1.0

A person who does hard physical work without special skills, often on building sites

is more specific to farm work and to outdoor physical tasks in agriculture
farm worker
vsfarmhand
25 1.1

A person who works on a farm doing jobs like planting or harvesting

is a general label for paid physical work on farms
ranch hand
vsfarmhand
  • US
10 4.4

A person who works on a ranch caring for cattle or horses

is similar but applies to mixed farming tasks beyond livestock or ranch work
hired hand
vsfarmhand
7 3.6

A person paid to do manual work on a farm or ranch

emphasizes general employment on a farm without stressing hire status
farmworker
vsfarmhand
5 1.6

A person who works on a farm doing physical tasks like planting and caring for animals

is the more general term for someone employed to do physical farm work
field hand
vsfarmhand
5 4.0

A person who does hard physical work on a farm

covers wider farm duties including animals and maintenance not only fields
manual laborer
vsfarmhand
  • US
1 3.0

A person who does hard work using their hands

is specific to farm employment while this term describes general manual effort
1 3.2

A person who works on a farm doing manual tasks like planting and harvesting

is used for general farm work beyond only soil or crop tasks
fieldhand
vsfarmhand
  • US
7.0

A person who works on a farm doing physical work in the fields

is broader, applying to many farm tasks beyond just field crop work

How Experienced

rancher
  • US
88 2.7
wrangler
  • US
10 7.4
cowboy
  • US
458 1.8
farmhand
8 3.0
trainee
50 2.4

Surface Forms

farmhand singular
farmhands plural

Morphology

farmhand = farm + hand (transparent) = farm + hand

A straightforward compound: 'farm' + 'hand' ('hand' = worker) directly yields 'a worker on a farm.'

Etymology

The word farmhand is simply farm + hand. Farm means 'place for crops and animals' and hand is an old, simple word for 'worker' (as in deckhand or handyman), so a farmhand is a person who works with their hands on a farm.