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field hand

noun

Definition of field hand

as in farmer

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Recent Examples of field hand Instead, Bennett enlisted the help of two field hands to hold the mother on a wooden table. — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026 His many references to nature, Black history, basketball, and R&B build a biography of his family—his grandmother’s work as a field hand, his parent’s divorce, his father’s dementia. — Miriam Gershow, Literary Hub, 1 Dec. 2025 While still a young girl, Tubman was taken away from her mother and forced to work as a maid, a nanny, a trapper, and a field hand. — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024 Born on the old Armant plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana, where his mother and father cut sugar cane as field hands, Nailor walked to a segregated school while white students like Weber whizzed past on buses. — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for field hand

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Noun

There was no structural investment in the support required for farmers to transition successfully—the technical assistance and the knowledge.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026
An Egyptian farmer tending to his cucumbers stumbled upon an ancient stone that led archaeologists to a much bigger discovery.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of farmer

Noun

The scale of the invasion has made control difficult, and harvester and marine economic development coordinator Eli Gladstone hopes a viable market for the crabs could help reduce their numbers.

— Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Josie and her single mom live on a middle-of-nowhere farm where the biggest threat (and, apparently, the movie’s arch villain) is a self-driving crop harvester manufactured by a company called Cootings.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of harvester

Noun

Separate areas for lounging, dining and a drinks station, anchored by rugs, planter clusters or furniture changes, will become the default design brief.

— Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Oct. 2026
Think about privacy with fencing, tall planters, bamboo screens or outdoor curtains, and factor in noise, drainage and level ground for anything with real weight like tubs or saunas.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026

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But when a patient recognizes him from his dangerous past, Brown has eight hours to elude the government, mob hitmen, quack surgeons, and a trail of dead gangsters to somehow beat the reaper.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026
In one scene, a pair of revellers dance naked just outside the fence of the Calvary Cemetery, thumbing their noses at the reaper while the Manhattan skyline towers in the distance.

— Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026

Definition of reaper

Noun

Marc Savoy was on his grandfather’s farm in Eunice, Louisiana, on the Prairie Faquetaïque, and something enchanting was rising from the catalpa grove, where a tenant farmer named Hiram Courville lived.

— jeanne malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026

Definition of tenant farmer

Noun

The strike ended in July 1970 with victory for thousands of Mexican American and Filipino American farmworkers, who reached a collective bargaining agreement with major grape growers.

— Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026
Providing education for cotton growers, WWF-Türkiye created a guide for optimizing water and soil management.

— Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026

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