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Hired Hand

Definition: Hired Hand

Hired Hand

Noun

1. A hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Hired Hand

Synonyms: hand (n), hired man (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hired Hand

English words defined with "hired hand": cattleman, cowboy, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpoke, cowpuncherfarm worker, farmhand, fieldhandhand, hired manpuncher. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hired Hand

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Movie/TV Titles

The Hired Hand (1971)

Porky's Hired Hand (1940)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hired Hand

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Books

  • Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815 (reference)

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Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Hired Hand

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Spanish farmer with hired hand and two horses, Concho, Arizona.Credit: Library of Congress.

Hired hand milking. McNally farm, Kirby, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress.

Driving cows from one farm to another during moving operations of Charles Miller. Miller, for twelve years a hired hand, has now rented a farm for himself. Mortheast of Fowler, Indiana.Credit: Library of Congress.

House for the married hired hand on the Harry Madsen farm. Three hundred sixty acres, near Dickens, Iowa. Operated by Mr. Madsen who is a very progressive owner.Credit: Library of Congress.

Wife of owner-operator and wife of hired hand clearing chickens in cellar preparatory to canning them. Chickens at this time of year are bringing six cents per pound. These are roasting. Harry Madsen farm, near Dickens, Iowa. Three hundred sixty acres, ow.Credit: Library of Congress.

Homer Sharer and family. Estherville, Iowa. He has rented farms in the past. Was last employed as hired hand for sixteen months, but is on unemployment relief.Credit: Library of Congress.

Part of family of Charles H. Mitchell, sixty-three years old. Mitchell has rented farms in the past but, because of inability to get a farm, worked as hired hand. Sons have been able to find but very little work. Family is on unemployment relief in Esther.Credit: Library of Congress.

Marcus Miller and family in shack that he built himself. Spencer, Iowa. This is half the house. Miller is a hired hand who has managed to save enoughh to make a part payment on seven and a half acres of land. However, he is most anxious to get steady work.Credit: Library of Congress.

Tip Estes, Indiana hired hand, with four of his nine children. Near Fowler.Credit: Library of Congress.

Washstand in house occupied by married hired hand and his wife. Harry Madsen farm near Dickens, Iowa. Three hundred sixty acres, owner-operated.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hired Hand

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  hired hand

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hired Hand

Language Translations for "hired hand"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

renki (farm hand, groom, hired man, horse-keeper, stablehand, stud groom). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iredhay andhay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hired Hand

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-h-h-i-n-r"

-2 letters: dandier, diehard, drained, handier.

-3 letters: dander, darned, denari, haired, handed, harden, hernia, hidden, hinder, raided, rained, ridden, rinded.

-4 letters: adder, aided, aider, aired, dared, deair, denar, dinar, dined, diner, drain, dread, dried, haded, hared, heard, hided, hider, hired, irade, nadir, nided, ranid, readd, redan, redia, redid.

-5 letters: aide, airn, arid, dare, darn, dead, dean.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hired Hand


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 69 72 65 64      48 61 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01001000 01100001 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#114 &#101 &#100 &#32 &#72 &#97 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0072 0065 0064      0048 0061 006E 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4275847170242678070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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