farm hand
a person who works on a farm, especially a hired worker; hired hand.
Origin of farm hand
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How to use farm hand in a sentence
It was ugly, cantankerous, simple enough for any farmhand to understand and fix, and indomitable.
My father was placed as a farmhand in exchange for room and board.
Then it is sung softly like the farmhand quartettes do in the rural melodrama outside the old homestead in harvest time.
The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley SmithHe had always worked as a farmhand, and had acquired but little in the way of an education.
The Land of Lure | Elliott SmithA whiskey-crazed farmhand is walking bare footed up and down the middle of the road defying the world.
A Son of the Middle Border | Hamlin Garland
But Pete, jewel of a farmhand though he was, possessed one serious flaw: he would have a periodical spree.
Doctor Jones' Picnic | S. E. ChapmanHe knew the love of the people of The Place for Lad, and he wondered at this invitation to a farmhand to thrash the dog publicly.
Lad: A Dog | Albert Payson Terhune
British Dictionary definitions for farm hand
a person who is hired to work on a farm
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