field hand

See also: fieldhand

English

Noun

field hand (plural field hands)

1. (chiefly US) An outdoor worker on a farm, plantation, or ranch.
   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:

     My mother was hired out to a Mr. Stewart, who lived about twelve miles from old master's, and, being a field hand, she seldom had leisure, by day, for the performance of the journey.

   • 1938 August 8, “Excitement in Jamaica”, in Time:

     A good weekly wage for a field hand on a banana plantation is $3.

See also

• hired hand