单词 | farm servant |
释义 | > as lemmasfarm servant b. With the sense ‘designating a person employed on a farm, esp. in manual labour, or a person owning or managing a farm’ (in sense 4), as in farm labourer, farm manager, farm owner, farm servant, farm worker, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker hindc1230 land-tiliec1275 fieldera1425 fieldmana1425 land-tiller?a1500 field labourer1610 scullogue1665 fieldworker1691 field hand1774 spalpeen1780 land-worker1782 farmhand1794 field woman1813 grass comber1825 cowman1828 chamar1858 guajiro1901 shamba boy1907 cowman-gardener1908 tractorman1946 hoggler1986 farm worker2017 1757 R. Maxwell Pract. Husbandman 304 You also, by your Crops, be enabled to pay the Rent, the Farm-Servants, and a Bottle when we meet. 1845 H. B. Hirst Poems 77 The farm boy with his shining spade. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 132 Some of the villagers are..farm labourers. 1922 World Tomorrow July 219/1 Where there has been an increase of tenant farmers and farm managers the Church is not holding its own. 1971 Agric. Educ. in W.A. 98 The agricultural high school wings are expected to provide vocational training at a relatively early age, for farmers' sons who intend to return to their family properties and eventually become farm owners. 2017 Eastern Daily Press (Norwich) (Nexis) 4 Nov. Food is already ‘rotting in the fields’ of East Anglia due to a shortfall of seasonal farm workers. < as lemmas |
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