farm hand

A form of farmhand — Synonym of farmworker.

Meanings

nounfarm hand (plural farm hands)

plural farm hands

  1. alternativeAlternative form of farmhand.
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    But the difficulty of retaining good farm hands has been working its own cure. American ingenuity has been stimulated, and machinery, with its many refinements, has been superseding skilled labour. Not only is the ground tilled and sown and reaped by machinery, but there are dairies with all manner of labour-saving devices which drain the milkshed of whole districts.

    1892 October 29, “American Life [book review of American Life, translated from the French of Paul de Rousiers, by A.J. Herbertson. Paris: Firmin Didot & Co. London: Cassell & Co. 1892]”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, volume 74, page 518
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