| 单词 | farmhand |
| 释义 | farmhand (once / 36706 pages) n A farmhand is someone who's employed by a farmer to work on a farm. Farmhands might help harvest vegetables, feed animals, or drive a tractor. If you get a summer job on a farm, you can call yourself a farmhand. While a farmer owns or manages a farm, a farmhand is hired to take on extra jobs, sometimes either part time, temporarily, or seasonally. The word hand gained the meaning "person who does something with his hands" in the 16th century, and often meant "hired workman" or "ship's crew member." Farmhand, therefore, means "hired worker on a farm." WORD FAMILYfarmhand: farmhands USAGE EXAMPLESTo pay for it, he worked for years as a freelance farmhand and day laborer. Washington Post(Oct 31, 2016) His wife uses a wheelchair because of arthritis, and the cost of her treatments and private schooling for his children were beyond a farmhand’s means. Washington Post(Oct 15, 2016) He grew up a farmhand in an impoverished village on the top of a mountain in one of the poorest provinces in China. New York Times(Sep 23, 2016) n a hired hand on a farm Syn|Hypo|Hyper farm worker, field hand, fieldhand dairymaid, milkmaid a woman who works in a dairy dairymana man who works in a dairy farmerettea woman working on a farm gleanersomeone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters harvester, reapersomeone who helps to gather the harvest pickersomeone who gathers crops or fruits etc. ploughman, plower, plowmana man who plows waterersomeone who waters plants or crops weedera farmhand hired to remove weeds vintagera person who harvests grapes for making wine hand, hired hand, hired man a hired laborer on a farm or ranch |
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