grass hand

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English

Noun

grass hand (plural grass hands)

  1. (printing, archaic) An additional worker taken on at busy times.
    • 1921, British and Colonial Printer and Stationer: And Newspaper Press:
      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.
    • The Printing Review (page 112)
      A dispute has arisen on the "Referee" owing to some men holding full frames working as grass hands on Saturday afternoons.
  2. (dated) Grass script; caoshu.