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.

labor

toil

Strenuous, prolonged effort

  • sweatMoisture from skin pores
  • manualWritten instructions for use
  • plowTool for turning soil

harvest · sow · reap · mow · bale · hoe · thresh · shear · milking · tilling

agriculture

crop

Cultivated agricultural plants

irrigation · fertilize · silage · threshing · seedling · husbandry · acreage · grain · orchard · vineyard

roles

hired

Given employment

sharecropper · tenant · picker · dairyman · plowman · reaper · thresher · drover · stockman · campesino

rural

pastoral

Of countryside or clergy care

homestead · fallow · meadow · barnyard · haystack · windmill · outbuilding · bunkhouse · dawn · rooster

herding

shepherd

One who tends flocks

swineherd · shearer · stockman · drover · cowboy · wrangler · cattleman · gaucho · buckaroo · pastoralist

Categories
Opposites
agricultural hierarchy/ownership

farmhandlandowner

One possessing real estate

farmer · plantation owner · estate owner · rancher · landlord

social class/status

farmhandking

Male crowned ruler

lord · aristocrat · nobleman · master · elite

work setting/lifestyle

farmhandwhite-collar worker

Non-manual professional employee

executive · office worker · urbanite · banker · stockbroker

Family

farmhands

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