field hand

noun

: an outdoor farm laborer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

Jordeen was a field hand on the Minton place. —Ayana Mathis, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2020

Burnett, though a year younger than Shields, became a pseudo-mentor, creating on-field hand signals specifically for Shields to help him identify the play. —Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2022

One is Shepard Mallory, a field hand who was one of three slaves who sought sanctuary at Fort Monroe in 1861, and Confederate Army Major John B. Cary, who came to the fort to retrieve Mallory and the other men. —San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2021

Present-day homes include grand farm estates as well as more modest field hand houses turned residential homes. —Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2021

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, she was forced to work from a young age, alternatively acting as a nursemaid, a field hand, a cook and a woodcutter. —Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021

And now, so do UPS drivers, and postal workers, and agricultural field hands, and hospital orderlies, and a whole range of people whose jobs require them to continue to work with others despite the dangers and lockdowns. —Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2020

Her empathetic portraits of African-American field hands shine a light on a system of peonage that predated and outlasted the 1930s. —New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020

Unlike heroin, cocaine or marijuana, the distributor explained, fentanyl didn’t require farmland, crops, sunshine, rain or field hands. —Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019

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Word History

First Known Use

1774, in the meaning defined above