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Meanings of hired hand in English

Portuguese
operário
Catalan
bracer
Spanish
mano de obra

A hired laborer on a farm or ranch.

        operário
        Synonyms
        Examples for "hand"
        Examples for "hand"
        1
        Therefore the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
        Nothing to lose
        2
        Merkel said authorities would use all means at hand to fight anti-Semitism.
        Reuters
        3
        Try different hand orientations; a good jam should feel secure and comfortable.
        Climbing Magazine
        4
        The rebound comes hand in hand with looser credit conditions this year.
        Reuters
        5
        The hand of political interference was never far from the problems either.
        Radio NZ
        1
        Then as the hired man pulled up the wagon she saw him.
        Winston of the Prairie
        2
        I can manage the farm, with one extra hired man in harvest-time.
        The Next of Kin: Those who Wait and Wonder
        3
        Already Farmer Green and the hired man had stepped up beside her.
        The Tale of the The Muley Cow / Slumber-Town Tales
        4
        And then the judge went out to hunt up his hired man.
        Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot
        5
        He and his hired man usually played California Jack in the evening.
        O Pioneers!
        Usage of hired hand in English
        1
        Worked as a hired hand till he got his threshing machine built.
        East of eden
        2
        The hell with it-lethim think I was only a hired hand.
        One night stands & lost weekends
        3
        He was Cuban, an outsider, and really nothing more than a hired hand.
        A quiet vendetta
        4
        They could scarcely afford a hired hand merely to take care of Queenie.
        Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod
        5
        Ira -Ira Flauer, hired hand on the family's Russellville farm
        Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Roger...
        6
        I'm just a hired hand-noteven a member of your clan.
        The Best Made Plans
        7
        I knew Garrett when he was a hired hand for this freight company downtown.
        City of lies
        8
        But you're only a hired hand and not worth fighting.
        The irish devil
        9
        For the first 17 years of his Stones life he was just a hired hand.
        The Guardian
        10
        A half-witted hired hand, name unknown, whereabouts unknown.
        More Than Human
        11
        Lee, as a hired hand at Marvel, received limited payback on the windfall from his characters.
        Radio NZ
        12
        Red Trelawney was ole man Henty's hired hand.
        Carrie
        13
        He came upon a hired hand splitting some sawed hickory slabs to whittle down into skewers.
        Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth
        14
        That hired hand who came through on his run south to Cawn -what was his name?
        Return of the Crimson Guard
        15
        This was the more familiar side of Rudov's hired hand that Brett had been hoping to avoid.
        Here comes trouble
        16
        A hired hand repeatedly crosses the line of fire to replace burst balloons on a rifle range.
        The Irish Times
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        Translations for hired hand
        Portuguese
        operário
        Hired hand through the time
        Hired hand across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Common