field hand
noun1
US An outdoor worker on a farm, plantation, or ranch.
- My mother was hired out to a Mr. Stewart, who lived about twelve miles from old master's, and, being a field hand, she seldom had leisure, by day, for the performance of the journey.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
- A good weekly wage for a field hand on a banana plantation is $3.1938 August 8, “Excitement in Jamaica”, in Time:
- Related terms
- fieldwork, hired hand, ranchhand