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month hand en · NOUN

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1. A temporary farmworker hired for a specific, extended period (usually one month or an entire season).
   • Farmers beginning to plow. Month hands getting $30 and board. Farmers generally in prosperous condition. 1908, T.B. Nelson, The Ohio farmer:
   • The hired help question is hard to describe; there are but few in this section who keep month hands, as they are a luxury 1915, G.S. Locke, “Soil Fertility Problems”, in Rural New Yorker:
   • a total of 5,937 farm hands were reported as placed. Most of those reported placed were regular "month hands." During this period a total of 8,696 men were sent out to farmers for interview 1919, Ohio. State council of defense, 1917-1918. [from old catalog], A history of the activities of the Ohio branch, Council of national defense, 1917-1919, page 73:

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month man · dayhand · farmhand