farmhand

/ˌfɑrmˈhænd/

/ˈfɑmhænd/

Other forms: farmhands

A farmhand is someone who's employed by a farmer to work on a farm. Farmhands might help harvest vegetables, feed animals, or drive a tractor.

If you get a summer job on a farm, you can call yourself a farmhand. While a farmer owns or manages a farm, a farmhand is hired to take on extra jobs, sometimes either part time, temporarily, or seasonally. The word hand gained the meaning "person who does something with his hands" in the 16th century, and often meant "hired workman" or "ship's crew member." Farmhand, therefore, means "hired worker on a farm."

Definitions of farmhand

1. noun

   a hired hand on a farm
   synonyms: farm worker, field hand, fieldhand

   types:

   dairymaid, milkmaid

   a woman who works in a dairy

   dairyman

   a man who works in a dairy

   farmerette

   a woman working on a farm

   gleaner

   someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters

   harvester, reaper

   someone who helps to gather the harvest

   picker

   someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.

   ploughman, plower, plowman

   a man who plows

   waterer

   someone who waters plants or crops

   weeder

   a farmhand hired to remove weeds

   vintager

   a person who harvests grapes for making wine

   type of:

   hand, hired hand, hired man

   a hired laborer on a farm or ranch