field hand
Agricultural manual worker
A field hand is a laborer who works in agricultural fields, planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops.
The term carries historical weight from its association with enslaved workers on American plantations: The field hands worked from sunup to sundown.
It now applies to any farmworker doing manual labor outdoors, though it sounds somewhat dated.
- laborerPhysical task performer
- pickerOne who gathers
- farm workerAgricultural laborer
- hoeWeeding and tilling implement
- harvestGathering mature crops
tenant farmer · backbreaking · hard labor · stoop · fieldman · cotton picker · migrant worker · sweat · plowman · antebellum · toil · reaper · bondsman · rows · tenant · dirt poor · plantation · dawn
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- farm workersfarmer, farmworker, farm laborer, harvester, herdsman
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, farm labor, crop farming
- farmworkersfarmworker, farm laborer, migrant worker, harvester, day laborer
- laborerslaborers, day laborer, day labourer, day laborers, manual worker
- rural jobsfarmer, rancher, shepherd, cowherd, dairyman
field handoffice worker
Indoor professional employee
white-collar worker · clerk · factory worker · secretary · desk jockey
field handplantation owner
Agricultural estate proprietor
landowner · estate owner · master · planter · overseer
field handprofessional
Credentialed in one's field
executive · knowledge worker · intellectual · manager · craftsman
hand, field, hands, fields, handiwork, handyman, farmhand, handheld, fieldwork