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field hand definition

☆ field hand

  1. Historical a plantation slave who worked in the fields
  2. a hired farm laborer

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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