Definition of Hired hand

1. Noun. A hired laborer on a farm or ranch. "A ranch hand"


Definition of Hired hand

1. Noun. A person who is employed to perform routine chores and manual labor, especially on a farm or ranch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hired Hand

hird
hirdman
hirdmen
hirds
hire
hire-purchase
hire car
hire out
hire purchase
hire purchases
hireable
hireage
hireages
hired
hired gun
hired hand (current term)
hired help
hired man
hiree
hirees
hireless
hireling
hirelings
hirer
hirers
hires
hiring
hiring freeze
hiring hall
hirings

Literary usage of Hired hand

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Four American Pioneers: Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, David Crockett by Frances Melville Perry, Katherine Beebe (1900)
"A hired hand. The law of Tennessee required a man to give his son a home and support until he was eighteen years old. In return for that the son's time, ..."

2. Agricultural Economics: A Selection of Materials in which Economic by Edwin Griswold Nourse (1916)
"Formerly he considered being a hired hand a temporary condition. He could stand anything then, for he looked forward to the independent life of a farm-owner ..."

3. The Strategic Value of Fossil Fuels: Challenges and Responses : Conference by International Energy Agency (1996)
"The foreign company, being a mere hired hand rather than a partner, ... The foreign company's compensation for being a hired hand is a stated ..."

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