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FIELD HAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does field hand mean?
• FIELD HAND (noun)
The noun FIELD HAND has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: FIELD HAND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hired hand on a farm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
farm worker; farmhand; field hand; fieldhand
Hypernyms ("field hand" is a kind of...):
hand; hired hand; hired man (a hired laborer on a farm or ranch)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "field hand"):
dairymaid; milkmaid (a woman who works in a dairy)
dairyman (a man who works in a dairy)
farmerette (a woman working on a farm)
gleaner (someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters)
harvester; reaper (someone who helps to gather the harvest)
picker (someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.)
ploughman; plower; plowman (a man who plows)
waterer (someone who waters plants or crops)
weeder (a farmhand hired to remove weeds)
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