Definition of "hired man" [hired man]

• A hired laborer on a farm or ranch (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "He had the hired man harness Ralph to the cabriolet, and in an hour they wheeled into town."
• "But gravity got the better of them and over went the load; the hired man (Rueb Dart) clung to his fork, and swung over the load through the air, alighting on his feet none the worse for the adventure."
• "Stanley Ketchell, who could beat several chimpanzees, died from a .22 caliber bullet fired from a cheap Flobert rifle belonging to the hired man on a farm in the Ozarks."