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n. - A hired worker on a farm.

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Usage examples (6)
  • A fieldhand is a labourer who lives by the sweat of his brow, and eats not what he does not earn.
  • Begging your bread, forsooth, and mumbling like a fieldhand!
  • "There's no water working in the house yet and I'm filthy as a fieldhand."
  • The idea that some Colonel Sanders type in a society that forbid slaves from reading would write to his former fieldhand and expect an intelligible reply is absurd.
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