field hand

Questions about field hand

What does field hand mean?

field hand means "a hired hand on a farm".

What is another word for field hand?

Close synonyms include farmhand, fieldhand, farm worker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is field hand a common word?

field hand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.