Thesaurus results for FARMHAND

farmhand

noun

Definition of farmhand

as in farmer

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Recent Examples of farmhand The voice that had so startled me belonged to our farmhand, Heisuke, a loyal but rather slow-witted man. — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026 Case details Brewer, a farmhand, was convicted in the 1990 murder of an Amarillo flooring company owner. — Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 20 May 2026 Their farmhands played a key role in its spread, said Nakamura, the federal health official. — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 17 May 2026 The former Toronto farmhand brought a ton of energy when he was first brought up from Providence, enough to earn him a two-year extension. — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for farmhand

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Lewis the farmer seems like a nice guy, but Kilby doesn’t buy his (true) story about going to Exile Island and losing his opportunity to get an advantage.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
William Wallace Cargill grew the company over the next several decades, expanding into grain elevators, offering farmers new flexibility in storing and selling their crops.

— Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of farmer

Noun

More traditionally, Boötes is a herdsman or a plowman.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 8 May 2026
Give your 19th-century plowman a dozen hard ciders, though, and see whether that plays a more significant role in his evening than his urge to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

— Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025

Definition of plowman

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For an oyster roast—which can vary in size from a family backyard affair to a full-on event with hundreds of attendees—the host will purchase bags of oysters from a local harvester (or harvest the oysters themselves).

— Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 23 Sep. 2026
Corn and soybean growers reported that a single large combine harvester consumes roughly 200 gallons of diesel per day.

— , CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of harvester

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LaRue was a prominent agriculturalist and state legislator, while his son, Jacob Eugene LaRue, was active in efforts to bring University State Farm, the predecessor to UC Davis, to what was then known as Davisville.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
According to Mason Huddleston, an urban agriculturalist at Oklahoma State University Extension, one of the plant’s most distinguishing features is its smooth, hollow stem, marked with purple or reddish-purple spots.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of agriculturist

Noun

Antonio Lo Fiego, an agronomist and technical director at Arcoiris Sementi Bio, led the first workshop, on selecting, gathering, and preserving vegetable seeds, run on a gift-economy model with no fee to join.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Gini, an agronomist who has overseen the planting of some two hundred thousand trees in Parco Nord in the past quarter century, has the tan skin, strong hands, and hearty disposition that are requisite for the job.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of agronomist

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In one scene, a pair of revellers dance naked just outside the fence of the Calvary Cemetery, thumbing their noses at the reaper while the Manhattan skyline towers in the distance.

— Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
At the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, American revolvers and reapers with swappable parts stunned international observers.

— Guru Madhavan, IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2026

Definition of reaper

Noun

During the 19th century, American cotton growers regarded seeds as an enormous nuisance.

— Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
Such traps can reveal when adults become active and help growers determine whether and when additional control measures are needed.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of grower

Noun

In 2019, González was introduced to Rocha, who had a reputation as a cultivator of Black and brown political talent.

— Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026
Cut, trim and prune with loppers, shears, snips and more, dig and weed with scoops, trowels, weeders and more and take and cultivate with cultivators and rakes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

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