单词 | farmhand |
释义 | farmhandn. 1. A person employed on a farm, esp. in manual labour. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker hindc1230 land-tiliec1275 fieldera1425 fieldmana1425 land-tiller?a1500 field labourer1610 scullogue1665 fieldworker1691 field hand1774 spalpeen1780 land-worker1782 farmhand1794 field woman1813 grass comber1825 cowman1828 chamar1858 guajiro1901 shamba boy1907 cowman-gardener1908 tractorman1946 hoggler1986 farm worker2017 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. ΚΠ 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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