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means A laborer hired to work on a farm, doing the planting, feeding, fixing, and harvesting that keeps the operation running.

from Straightforward compound English: 'farm' plus 'hand,' where 'hand' has meant a worker or laborer since at least the 1600s — the body part standing in for the whole person, the way we still say 'all hands on deck' or 'hired hand.' 'Farmhand' itself as a single job title took hold in the 1800s, when large farms needed a word for workers who weren't family and weren't owners, just paid labor by the hand.