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单词 field hand
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Definition of field hand in English:

field hand

noun
historical
  • A person, especially a US slave, employed as a farm labourer.

    〈主史〉农工、农业工人(尤指美国农奴)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She worked picking cotton, being a field hand, and then at Melrose Plantation moved from doing the laundry to cook and nanny for the Henry children.
    • Tubman was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation, and she labored as a field hand and house servant until 1849, when she escaped to freedom in the North.
    • In late 1926, African workers fled from their positions as field hands on Portuguese-run maize farms in the central Mozambican districts of Manica and Chimoio.
    • Many Afro-Brazilians work as field hands on ranches and large plantations.
    • Some found ready but low-paying employment as Pacific Coast migratory field hands and cannery workers.
    • This group included working mothers, copy editors, loggers, divorcées, construction workers, cashiers, field hands, bank clerks, tailors.
    • The Union Leagues armed themselves, escorting field hands to the polls and punishing white employers who continued to use the whip as an instrument of labour discipline.
    • In the 1850s, able field hands brought $1,500; skilled artisans $3,000.
    • While there is a connection via name, that's about it for this tired tale of witch doctors, plantation ownership, zombie field hands, and forbidden thrill kill cults.
    • There was labour-related accounting being done; the intricate bonus system depended upon turnout statistics of individual field hands.
    • Actually, by tradition Filipinas have been in charge not only of children but of family funds as well, even while functioning as field hands and small-item vendors or barterers.
    • Out in the plantations Dawson saw the field hands working, planting crops to be harvested in the summer.
    • A sharecropping arrangement featured the field hand living in the work camp and working for a minimum wage with a bonus superimposed at the time of harvest.
    • One local farmer tells me he gets his field hands from El Salvador - though I know this guest worker programme ended more than 20 years ago.
    • And the cancer risk does not just affect consumers; it also imperils tens of thousands of farmers, field hands, and migrant laborers.
    • Wage rates per month in 1894 at Laupahoehoe Plantation were $14 per month for Asian and $16 for Portuguese field hands.
    • Brisbane eventually sold his field hands as an act of divestiture for the sake of conscience, which only exacerbated animosity as it pricked the consciences of other slaveholders.
    • Other resonant images are created by mobile scenic contraptions that represent a row of field hands stooping to pick crops and a towering factory loom.
    • Often disguised as a field hand or poor farm wife, she led several spy missions herself, while directing others from Union lines.
    • Distinctions were made between field hands, dominated by recent arrivals from Africa, and house slaves and craftsmen, often selected from the creole, or island-born, slave population.
    Synonyms
    worker, factory worker, manual worker, unskilled worker, blue-collar worker, workman, workwoman, workperson, working man, labourer, operative, hired hand, hireling, roustabout, employee, artisan

Definition of field hand in US English:

field hand

nounˈfēl(d) ˈˌhandˈfil(d) ˈˌhænd
historical
  • A person employed as a farm laborer.

    〈主史〉农工、农业工人(尤指美国农奴)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many Afro-Brazilians work as field hands on ranches and large plantations.
    • This group included working mothers, copy editors, loggers, divorcées, construction workers, cashiers, field hands, bank clerks, tailors.
    • Actually, by tradition Filipinas have been in charge not only of children but of family funds as well, even while functioning as field hands and small-item vendors or barterers.
    • Often disguised as a field hand or poor farm wife, she led several spy missions herself, while directing others from Union lines.
    • In late 1926, African workers fled from their positions as field hands on Portuguese-run maize farms in the central Mozambican districts of Manica and Chimoio.
    • Out in the plantations Dawson saw the field hands working, planting crops to be harvested in the summer.
    • Other resonant images are created by mobile scenic contraptions that represent a row of field hands stooping to pick crops and a towering factory loom.
    • The Union Leagues armed themselves, escorting field hands to the polls and punishing white employers who continued to use the whip as an instrument of labour discipline.
    • Tubman was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation, and she labored as a field hand and house servant until 1849, when she escaped to freedom in the North.
    • Distinctions were made between field hands, dominated by recent arrivals from Africa, and house slaves and craftsmen, often selected from the creole, or island-born, slave population.
    • There was labour-related accounting being done; the intricate bonus system depended upon turnout statistics of individual field hands.
    • A sharecropping arrangement featured the field hand living in the work camp and working for a minimum wage with a bonus superimposed at the time of harvest.
    • Wage rates per month in 1894 at Laupahoehoe Plantation were $14 per month for Asian and $16 for Portuguese field hands.
    • She worked picking cotton, being a field hand, and then at Melrose Plantation moved from doing the laundry to cook and nanny for the Henry children.
    • And the cancer risk does not just affect consumers; it also imperils tens of thousands of farmers, field hands, and migrant laborers.
    • Some found ready but low-paying employment as Pacific Coast migratory field hands and cannery workers.
    • While there is a connection via name, that's about it for this tired tale of witch doctors, plantation ownership, zombie field hands, and forbidden thrill kill cults.
    • One local farmer tells me he gets his field hands from El Salvador - though I know this guest worker programme ended more than 20 years ago.
    • In the 1850s, able field hands brought $1,500; skilled artisans $3,000.
    • Brisbane eventually sold his field hands as an act of divestiture for the sake of conscience, which only exacerbated animosity as it pricked the consciences of other slaveholders.
    Synonyms
    worker, factory worker, manual worker, unskilled worker, blue-collar worker, workman, workwoman, workperson, working man, labourer, operative, hired hand, hireling, roustabout, employee, artisan
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