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the unsung muscle that fed empires while history hogged the credit.
means A person hired to do manual labor on a farm, from tending crops to caring for livestock.
from A straightforward English compound of "farm" plus "hand" — the latter long used to mean a worker or laborer, the part of the body standing in for the whole person, as in "all hands on deck" or "ranch hand." "Farm" itself traces back through Old French "ferme" to the Latin "firmare," to fix or settle (originally a fixed payment or lease), eventually shifting to mean the land itself. So a farmhand is, quite literally, a hand for the farm.
- old word
- the term predates tractors by centuries
- skill range
- part mechanic, vet, weatherman, and weightlifter
- hours
- sunrise shifts older than alarm clocks
- migration history
- seasonal hands followed crops across whole continents
for instance
jeter's farm hands — derek jeter's farmhands at millington, tennessee horse farm, employing 50+ workers