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FIELD HAND

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hired hand on a farm

Synonyms:

farm worker; farmhand; field hand; fieldhand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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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