farmhand
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- noun
- /ˈfɑrmˌhænd/
- The farmer employs several farmhands to help with the harvest every autumn.
- a former farmhand
- a young farmhand
- a Mexican farmhand
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Watch on YouTubeAnd 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.
- 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.
- You get some of those field names, those daughters of farmhands, brother.
Examples
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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?
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Anyway, could you get my bags, farmhand, please?
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Her father's a farmhand and he only has the one foot.
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You worked hard like the other farmhands, but you were different.
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One of the farmhands told me.
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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.
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With all the farmhands gone, I can't do everything around here myself.
Synonyms
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A person who does hard physical work without special skills, often on building sites
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A worker who does physical work on a ship or farm
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A person who works on a farm doing jobs like planting or harvesting
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A person who works on a ranch caring for cattle or horses
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A person paid to do manual work on a farm or ranch
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A person who works on a farm doing physical tasks like planting and caring for animals
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A person who does hard physical work on a farm
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A person who does hard work using their hands
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A person who works on a farm doing manual tasks like planting and harvesting
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A person who works on a farm doing physical work in the fields
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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.