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month hand

month hand noun: a temporary farmworker hired for a specific, extended period (usually one month or an entire season).

Noun

month hand (plural month hands)

  1. A temporary farmworker hired for a specific, extended period (usually one month or an entire season).
    • Farmers beginning to plow. Month hands getting $30 and board. Farmers generally in prosperous condition.1908, T.B. Nelson, The Ohio farmer
    • The hired help question is hard to describe; there are but few in this section who keep month hands, as they are a luxury1915, G.S. Locke, “Soil Fertility Problems”, in Rural New Yorker

Forms of month hand

pluralmonth hands

Questions about month hand

What does month hand mean?
Month hand means a temporary farmworker hired for a specific, extended period (usually one month or an entire season).
What part of speech is month hand?
Month hand is a noun.
What is the plural of month hand?
The plural of month hand is month hands.

Words near month hand in the dictionary

  1. Montgomery's tubercles
  2. montgomeryite
  3. Montgomeryshire
  4. month
  5. month by month
  6. month hand
  7. month in, month out
  8. month man
  9. month men
  10. month mind
  11. month minds

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