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  • noun Plural form of fieldhand.

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Examples

  • When you begin the 2nd Generation game, any Tame Monsters who work as 'fieldhands' will be able to perform efficiently and two Monsters from the 1st Generation set to the task of watering your Crops can cover the entire field each day.

    IGN Complete 2009

  • When you begin the 2nd Generation game, any Tame Monsters who work as 'fieldhands' will be able to perform efficiently and two Monsters from the 1st Generation set to the task of watering your Crops can cover the entire field each day.

    IGN Complete 2009

  • Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of being flogged by the local wheelmen, along with the fieldhands, the postman, and a young Tennessee Williams.

    Archive 2008-03-01 BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • In 1942 the citizens of Hearne petitioned the federal government to build the camp, believing that the prisoners could work on local cotton, onion, and peanut farms while the town's regular fieldhands went off to war.

    "The Fritz Ritz" 1997

  • At harvest - time Withen made it a point of spending one day with each of his tenants and several days with his own fieldhands, working beside them.

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • At harvest - time Withen made it a point of spending one day with each of his tenants and several days with his own fieldhands, working beside them.

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • Much was he there in the months that followed, both at Heorot and widely among yeomen, chapmen, or common fieldhands, workers, sailors.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • "By no means do these Muslims represent the Negro masses -" That was the first worry, to reassure "good massa" that he had no reason to be concerned about his fieldhands in the ghettoes.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • It was the season of the year when all the fieldhands were engaged in plowing, and when he was three weeks old,

    Aunt Sally: or, The Cross the Way of Freedom. A Narrative of the Slave-life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams, of Detroit, Michigan Isaac Williams 1858

  • Some question whether Chavez, who rallied fieldhands over low wages and exploitation, is relevant to Dallas history.

    Kentucky.com: Homepage 2008

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