farmhand
Hired harvest helper
A farmhand is a person hired to do manual labor on a farm—feeding livestock, mending fences, operating machinery, harvesting crops.
The term suggests someone employed by a farm's owner rather than a family member or the farmer themselves: The ranch employed three farmhands during calving season.
Strenuous, prolonged effort
Cultivated agricultural plants
- harvestGathering mature crops
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- pastureGrazing ground for livestock
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
fertilize · silage · threshing · seedling · husbandry · acreage · grain · orchard
Given employment
- seasonalRecurring at fixed intervals
- migrantOne who relocates
- day laborerCasual hired worker
- sharecropperFarmer paying rent in crops
tenant · picker · dairyman · plowman · reaper · thresher · drover · stockman
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
harvest · sow · reap · mow · bale · hoe · thresh · shear · milking · tilling
crop
Cultivated agricultural plants
- harvestGathering mature crops
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- pastureGrazing ground for livestock
irrigation · fertilize · silage · threshing · seedling · husbandry · acreage · grain · orchard · vineyard
hired
Given employment
- seasonalRecurring at fixed intervals
- migrantOne who relocates
- day laborerCasual hired worker
sharecropper · tenant · picker · dairyman · plowman · reaper · thresher · drover · stockman · campesino
pastoral
Of countryside or clergy care
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- rusticRural and unrefined
- bucolicIdyllically rural
homestead · fallow · meadow · barnyard · haystack · windmill · outbuilding · bunkhouse · dawn · rooster
shepherd
One who tends flocks
swineherd · shearer · stockman · drover · cowboy · wrangler · cattleman · gaucho · buckaroo · pastoralist
- farmworkersfieldworker, migrant worker, harvester, day laborer, picker
- farmhandscrop worker, harvest worker, agricultural worker, cowhand, herdsman
- occupationsdoctor, teacher, baker, lawyer, nurse
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- harvestreaping, fall harvest, wheat sheaf, reaper, reap
- livestock farmingcattle ranch, sheep shearing, milking, herding, ranching
farmhandlandowner
One possessing real estate
farmer · plantation owner · estate owner · rancher · landlord
farmhandwhite-collar worker
Non-manual professional employee
executive · office worker · urbanite · banker · stockbroker