英和和英

語源

field +‎ hand

名詞

field hand (複数形 field hands)

1. (chiefly US) An outdoor worker on a farm, plantation, or ranch.
   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan:

     My mother was hired out to a Mr. Stewart, who lived about twelve miles from old master's, and, being a field hand, she seldom had leisure, by day, for the performance of the journey.