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单词 farmhand
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farmhandn.

Brit. /ˈfɑːmhand/, U.S. /ˈfɑrmˌ(h)ænd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: farm n.2, hand n.
Etymology: < farm n.2 + hand n. With sense 2 compare farm club n. at farm n.2 Compounds 2 and later farm team n. 2.
1. A person employed on a farm, esp. in manual labour.
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1794 T. Cooper Some Information Amer. 223 Not a few [reside] upon farms.., which they cultivate at leisure times..or by letting out fields, for a part of the produce, to some neighbour, who has time or farm hands not fully employed.
1843 Cultivator May 85/1 In unpropitious weather for out door employment your farm hands can go to threshing out grain.
1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 108 He was about the best specimen of a young country farm-hand I ever knew.
2012 @gilmerdairy 6 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 8 July 2019) Cows are grazing, my dad & our farmhands are moving calves to new pastures, and I'm applying fertilizer.
2. North American Sport (Baseball and Ice Hockey). A minor-league player belonging to a farm team; cf. farm team n. 2.
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1896 Washington Post 11 May 8/4 Pittsburg has a splendid farm down in the Eastern League, and we may need some of those farm hands before the season is over.
2004 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 17 Sept. iv. 3/6 Wise was an Anaheim Angels farmhand two years ago when he blew out his elbow while pitching to Bonds in a Cactus League game.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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