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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

Ford faced a challenge from Koppie, who describes himself as a retired farmer and pilot in his online biography.

— Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
Finstad was previously a farmer and served as an area director for the Minnesota Farm Bureau.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of farmer

Noun

Unfortunately for the harvester ants, this toxin doesn’t even slightly deter horned lizards, who eat the ants in large numbers.

— RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2026
The device, called a biohybrid mesh harvester, features numerous tiny piezoelectric generators distributed across a flexible network that living cells can grow into and around.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of harvester

Noun

Separate areas for lounging, dining and a drinks station, anchored by rugs, planter clusters or furniture changes, will become the default design brief.

— Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Oct. 2026
Think about privacy with fencing, tall planters, bamboo screens or outdoor curtains, and factor in noise, drainage and level ground for anything with real weight like tubs or saunas.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of planter

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However, the team opted to build a 20 percent larger craft that weighed nearly 20 pounds (9 Kg), heavier than Salvo’s reaper.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2026
But when a patient recognizes him from his dangerous past, Brown has eight hours to elude the government, mob hitmen, quack surgeons, and a trail of dead gangsters to somehow beat the reaper.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of reaper

Noun

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

Cotton Australia ended up speaking with 320 growers, or roughly a quarter of its membership.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026
Its growers and producers are major suppliers of the nation’s food and wine and are regularly caught in the crossfire of policy decisions made at the federal level.

— Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of grower

Noun

That includes Fernando Cruz, who mostly pitched well this season but is a non-tender candidate due to a partial tear of his UCL, and Carlos Lagrange, a flamethrowing farmhand whose big league arrival was delayed by a shoulder sprain.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 5 Nov. 2026
The cow remained in police custody until another farmhand arrived with a trailer to transport the animal.

— Adam Thompson, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of farmhand

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