farmhand
noun
farm·hand
ˈfärm-ˌhand 
1
: a farm laborer
especially
: a hired laborer on a farm
2
: a player on a farm team
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This time, the life cycle of the land, and the unlikely collaboration of landowners and conservationists, bird watchers and farmhands, provides a similar, albeit less intimate, corollary.
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Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
From Clint Frazier to Anthony Volpe to Jasson Domínguez, the farmhands are met with expectations that should never be placed on the shoulders of players in their early twenties, often leading to disappointment among fans when growing pains occur.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Out in the California sun, a new kind of farmhand is hard at work.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2025
In photographs from Hemingway’s time, the most striking thing is how empty the route looks, with only a few dozen young farmhands scattering ahead of the bulls’ horns.
—Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
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Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
From Clint Frazier to Anthony Volpe to Jasson Domínguez, the farmhands are met with expectations that should never be placed on the shoulders of players in their early twenties, often leading to disappointment among fans when growing pains occur.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Out in the California sun, a new kind of farmhand is hard at work.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2025
In photographs from Hemingway’s time, the most striking thing is how empty the route looks, with only a few dozen young farmhands scattering ahead of the bulls’ horns.
—Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for farmhand
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“Farmhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/farmhand. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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farmhand
noun
farm·hand
ˈfärm-ˌhand
: a farm laborer
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