dayhand
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A general laborer hired and paid on a daily basis, rather than through a long-term contract or a set salary.
Example Sentences
- "I think, for most kinds of business, ten hours per day should constitute a day's work. My day hands do not average much more than nine hours."
- "I'd save 'bout half on my day hands who live and board at home."
- "[...] he found employment with the Excelsior Alining Company. The latter were running two shifts of men in their mill, the day hands receiving $5 and the night hands $6 for ten hours work. Mr. Eades continued in the employ of this company for nineteen months, during which time he accumulated $1,350"
- "Let me say it is my belief that there will be no necessity for increasing the mine equipment and providing new mine cars or even increasing the dayhands employed in the mine"
- "Other planters put their land into the growing of vegetables and fruits, especially peaches. Here again dayhands were used to do the work."
- "Dayhands might be cocky enough to run an unregistered woodsie along country roads at night. But certainly not along Lakeville Avenue."
Inflected Forms
dayhands (plural)