Definitions
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- noun Alternative form of
field hand .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hired hand on a farm
Etymologies
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Examples
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A fieldhand is a labourer who lives by the sweat of his brow, and eats not what he does not earn.
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Begging your bread, forsooth, and mumbling like a fieldhand!
THE NUMBERS 2010
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"There's no water working in the house yet and I'm filthy as a fieldhand."
Homebody Card, Orson Scott 1998
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Begging your bread, forsooth, and mumbling like a fieldhand!
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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Begging your bread, forsooth, and mumbling like a fieldhand!
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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To the car-window sociologist, to the man who seeks to understand and know the South by devoting the few leisure hours of a holiday trip to unravelling the snarl of centuries, -- to such men very often the whole trouble with the black fieldhand may be summed up by Aunt Ophelia's word, "Shiftless!"
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[…] The idea that some Colonel Sanders type in a society that forbid slaves from reading would write to his former fieldhand and expect an intelligible reply is absurd.
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The idea that some Colonel Sanders type in a society that forbid slaves from reading would write to his former fieldhand and expect an intelligible reply is absurd.
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Everybody has it just enough better than the level below him that he's afraid of losing his job and being busted back to fieldhand. "
A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934
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Satisfactorily, I knew we had something when even the strapping fieldhand dressed as William Wallace looked frightened. "
AMEN Wook 2008
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