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Definition of Hired hand
1. Noun. A hired laborer on a farm or ranch. "A ranch hand"
Specialized synonyms: Farm Worker, Farmhand, Field Hand, Fieldhand, Drover, Herder, Herdsman, Ranch Hand, Groom, Hostler, Ostler, Stableboy, Stableman
Generic synonyms: Jack, Laborer, Labourer, Manual Laborer
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
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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