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hine

hine

9.9
A farm worker who lives on a large farm and cares for animals and crops
  • noun
  • Archaic
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Examples

  • No, man, not - Not - The hine

  • The young hine worked tirelessly in the fields from dawn until dusk.

  • At the estate, the hine carried heavy loads and tended to the livestock.

  • During harvest season, each hine played a crucial role in gathering the crops.

Synonyms

servant
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422 1.0

A person who works in someone's home doing jobs like cooking and cleaning

is specifically an old rural estate worker rather than a domestic worker
farm worker
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25 1.1

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

is an old-fashioned name for that same employed farm role
farmhand
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8 3.0

A person paid to work on a farm doing hard work

is the archaic expression for such rural farm workers
hired hand
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7 3.6

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

is an older word used historically rather than in modern speech
farmworker
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5 1.6

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

is a dated label for the same kind of farm worker
field hand
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5 4.0

A person who does hard physical work on a farm

is an older name that covers similar field work roles
hired man
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4 3.2

A man who works on a farm for pay

is an older term for the same rural employed worker
1 3.2

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

is an older specific term used mainly for estate laborers

Surface Forms

hine singular
hines plural

Etymology

The word hine once meant a farm servant or worker. It comes from an old English word like hind that meant a farm helper, so remembering hind helps you think of a hine as someone who worked 'on the land'.