A person, often a youth or apprentice, who assists with combining or gathering crops, especially in agricultural contexts.
Compound of combine (work) plus boy. Emerged in agricultural terminology in the American Midwest, referring to farmhands who operated or assisted combine harvesters.
Combboys in early 20th-century America were young men who worked wheat harvests—following the wheat belt from Texas to Canada, part of a seasonal migrant farming culture!
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