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field hand

field hand noun: an outdoor worker on a farm, plantation, or ranch.

Noun

field hand (plural field hands)

  1. (US) An outdoor worker on a farm, plantation, or ranch.
    • My mother was hired out to a Mr. Stewart, who lived about twelve miles from old master's, and, being a field hand, she seldom had leisure, by day, for the performance of the journey.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC
    • A good weekly wage for a field hand on a banana plantation is $3.1938 August 8, “Excitement in Jamaica”, in Time

Forms of field hand

pluralfield hands
alternative formfieldhand

Questions about field hand

What does field hand mean?
Field hand means an outdoor worker on a farm, plantation, or ranch.
What part of speech is field hand?
Field hand is a noun.
What is the plural of field hand?
The plural of field hand is field hands.

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