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hired hand

NOUN
  1. a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
    the hired hand fixed the railing
    a ranch hand

How To Use hired hand In A Sentence

  • One of the more dramatic resurrections in recent cinema history has seen Peter Fonda bring back his debut film as director, The Hired Hand.
  • the hired hand fixed the railing
  • Modern tractors, equipped with global positioning devices and autopilots, allow a single operator to farm several thousand acres without a hired hand.
  • His father had been an embittered hired hand to a poor tenant farmer in the forsaken moorlands of Jutland.
  • I visited them that April during lambing, and was so taken with the magnitude of their life -- at once its allure and its arduousness -- that we ended up working with them, their friends, and their Irish-American hired hands intensively over the coming years. George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack
  • hired hands
  • Abraham Lincoln, as a hired hand on a flatboat in 1831, ran aground on a trip down the Mississippi River.
  • The bankrupt cattle barons dismissed thousands of hired hands, who were forced to find new careers.
  • Then one day, the ranchers widow said to the hired hand, "You have done a really good job and the ranch looks great.
  • Eddie is a hired hand on a sheep station after the Great War.
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