| 单词 | hired man | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashired man  b.   hired man,  hired woman,  hired girl,  hired people: applied to free men or women engaged as servants (the latter word being formerly used to include slaves). U.S. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > 			[noun]		 > hireling hiremanc975 hirelingc1000 leȝhemannc1175 allowes1348 merchantc1384 mercenaryc1387 hiring manc1425 pensioner1472 wageling?1545 pensionary1548 hired woman1639 help1645 engagee1808 1639    Plymouth Col. Rec. 		(1855)	 I. 122  				Roberte Eldred, the hyred servant of Nicholas Sympkins for the terme of three yeares. 1714    tr.  H. Joutel Jrnl. Last Voy. M. de la Sale 2  				Hired People and Workmen of all Sorts, requisite for making of a Settlement. 1715    Laws of Maryland 		(1765)	 c. 44 §10  				No Person whatsoever, shall trade..with any Servant, whether hired, or indented, or Slave..without Leave or License. 1737    Plymouth 		(Mass.)	 Town Rec. 18 May 		(1892)	 II. 321  				A hired man with me on a fishing voyage. 1755    B. Franklin Observ. conc. Increase Mankind 6 in  W. Clarke Observ. Late & Present Conduct French  				Slaves may be kept as long as a Man pleases..while hired Men are continually leaving their master (often in the midst of his Business). 1792    tr.  J. P. Brissot de Warville New Trav. U.S.A. 400  				They [Quakers] have no slaves; they employ negroes as hired servants. 1818    J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 		(1822)	 9  				Master is not a word in the vocabulary of hired people. Bos, a Dutch one of similar import, is substituted. The former is used by Negroes, and is by free people considered as synonymous with slave-keeper. 1820    J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 		(1822)	 264  				These I must call Americanisms..Hired Girl for Servant Girl. Hired Man for Servant Man. 1842    J. F. Watson Ann. Philadelphia & Pennsylvania 		(1877)	 I. 176  				Now all hired girls appear abroad in the same style of dress as their ladies. 1877    J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms 		(ed. 4)	  				Hired man, a man-servant. Hired woman, a servant-girl. Many servants dislike to be called such, and think it more respectable to say ‘help’ or ‘hired woman’. 1893    Nation 		(N.Y.)	 19 Jan. 43/1  				Where are the farms on which there is no place for the ‘hired man’ or ‘hired girl’? < as lemmas | 
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