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Definition of Farmhands
1. farmhand [n] - See also: farmhand
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farmhands
Literary usage of Farmhands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1883)
"It is answered : Petitioner shall appear before the Director-General and Council
with his eons and farmhands. Date as above. Received and read the petition ..."
2. The Twentieth Century American: Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of by Harry Perry Robinson (1908)
"... in Chicago—The Press of England and America Compared—Mixed Society—Educated
Women—Generals as Booksellers—And as farmhands—The Value of War to a People. ..."
3. The Journal of Home Economics by American Home Economics Association (1915)
"... perfectly happy, while the farmhands lunched at the table, and the fowls
strolled in and out; here the masters sleep, in sickness and health; ..."
4. Day One and Beyond: Practical Matters for New Middle-Level Teachersby Rick Wormeli by Rick Wormeli (2003)
"Instead of cattle, let's consider students as farmhands working with the ...
farmhands who have been apprenticed to us to learn all they can about our ..."
5. Introduction to Economics by Henry Rogers Seager (1905)
"Thus farmhands in the Northern States receive two or three times as high wages
as farmhands in the cotton fields of the South, partly because they work ..."
6. The Boy Scouts' Year Book by Boy Scouts of America (1917)
"The other farmhands knew his disposition and waited anxiously in the morning at
hitching time to see how young Michael would handle the problem. ..."
7. Annual Report on the Public Employment Offices by Charles Ferris Gettemy, Roswell Foulk Phelps, Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics (1908)
"During the year, 322 less farmhands were called for and 209 less were placed ...
farmhands, that is, good, experienced men, were scarcer than at any time ..."
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