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field hand

noun

Definition of field hand

as in farmer

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Recent Examples of field hand Instead, Bennett enlisted the help of two field hands to hold the mother on a wooden table. — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026 His many references to nature, Black history, basketball, and R&B build a biography of his family—his grandmother’s work as a field hand, his parent’s divorce, his father’s dementia. — Miriam Gershow, Literary Hub, 1 Dec. 2025 While still a young girl, Tubman was taken away from her mother and forced to work as a maid, a nanny, a trapper, and a field hand. — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024 Born on the old Armant plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana, where his mother and father cut sugar cane as field hands, Nailor walked to a segregated school while white students like Weber whizzed past on buses. — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for field hand

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Noun

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

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

Noun

Impatiens Impatiens are commonly grown as bedding plants in the garden, or as filler plants in planters and pots.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 28 Sep. 2026
Get inspired at the garden center with vertical gardens, railing planters, or pots with seasonal florals.

— Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of planter

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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

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

Definition of cultivator

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Marc Savoy was on his grandfather’s farm in Eunice, Louisiana, on the Prairie Faquetaïque, and something enchanting was rising from the catalpa grove, where a tenant farmer named Hiram Courville lived.

— jeanne malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026

Definition of tenant farmer

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

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