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night hand

night hand noun: a laborer who works the overnight shift.

Noun

night hand (plural night hands)

  1. A laborer who works the overnight shift.
    • When disorderly persons are filling the streets, the night sets are steadily at their work. In point of fact, our night-hands are quite as steady and respectable as any other.1834, Factories Inquiry Commission: Supplementary Report of the Central Board of H. Maj. Commissioners appointed to collect Information in the Manufacturing Districts, as to the Employment of...
    • [...] our night hands tell not what our day hands have been doing! And they do plenty.1934, H.F. Ritchie, “Men Have Funny Ideas...”, in Movie Classic (Jan-Jul 1934), page 58

Forms of night hand

pluralnight hands

Questions about night hand

What does night hand mean?
Night hand means a laborer who works the overnight shift.
What part of speech is night hand?
Night hand is a noun.
What is the plural of night hand?
The plural of night hand is night hands.

Words near night hand in the dictionary

  1. night glass
  2. night glasses
  3. night green
  4. night hag
  5. night hags
  6. night hand
  7. night hawk
  8. night hawks
  9. night heron
  10. night herons
  11. night house

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