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Definition of "field-hand" [field-hand]

  • A hand or person who works in the fields; a laborer on a farm or plantation. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "field-hand" in a sentence
  • "Just once, I wanted a beating to leave field-hand whip marks on my back."
  • "Elirose Pierre-Louis, who came to the US from Haiti in 1985, worked as a seasonal field-hand and as a janitor in southern Florida."
  • "The casual rape of a fertile field-hand, a mistake in the contraception treatments, an affair by a younger elf with a simple servant or a breeder'there must have been a dozen ways a conception could occur."