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What is "hired hand"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hired hand
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A hired hand who worked miracles and shared what little he had with those few who were less fortunate.
▪ He was too much of a loser to have been anything more than a hired hand.
▪ I saw the hired hand from M. Deloche's farm coming across the field with it in his hand.
▪ Right to reproduce the wax model remains with the sculptor, but his hired hand can reproduce the bronze.
Wiktionary
hired hand

n. A person who is employed to perform routine chores and manual labor, especially on a farm or ranch.

WordNet
hired hand

n. a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand" [syn: hand, hired man]

Wikipedia
Hired Hand

Hired hand may refer to

  • an employee
  • The Hired Hand, a Western film
  • an artist with Fake Four Inc. record label

Usage examples of "hired hand".

On the porch swing, a plastic hired hand sat with his arm around a plastic farmer's daughter.

Then, like a true hired hand, the pilot had turned his airplane around and fled the area.

She needed a hired hand, and all of his references had checked out.

She led him to her laundry shed out back, and got out the faded but soft clean overalls her tallest hired hand worked in.

You told me you were a lawman, not the hired hand of a silly old thing whose only crime is that overdone henna rinse!

The other three roomers with any call to have been upstairs in the wee small hours when the fire was set had all died with Widow Dugan and her lover cum hired hand.