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grass hand en · NOUN

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1. (archaic) An additional worker taken on at busy times.
   • Some strong criticism was expressed at the present practice of taking on grass hands, and the inconvenience and unpleasantness resulting from it in various foundries. 1921, British and Colonial Printer and Stationer: And Newspaper Press:
   • A dispute has arisen on the "Referee" owing to some men holding full frames working as grass hands on Saturday afternoons. The Printing Review (page 112)
2. (dated) Grass script; caoshu.

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