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单词 farmable
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farmableadj.

Brit. /ˈfɑːməbl/, U.S. /ˈfɑrməb(ə)l/
Forms: 1500s fermable, 1500s– farmable, 1600s farmeable.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: farm v.2, -able suffix.
Etymology: < farm v.2 + -able suffix.Compare post-classical Latin firmabilis (1425, 1574 in British sources).
1. That may be leased or rented. Also: (of livestock) able to be hired out. Obsolete.
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1519 Will of John Peppes the elder of Branktre, Essex in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. (1895) 5 198 I bequeth to the meantynence of the light before the image of St. Katryn in the said church of Branktre a fermable cowe, to be delivered unto the church wardyns for the tyme being within a resonable tyme after my decease.
1560 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1982) (modernized text) I. 283 To my two daughters Joan and Mary a cow farmable apiece at marriage.
1656 W. Smith Golden Fleece ii. 11 This course continued till the Aulnage was made Farmable, which was Enacted by Parliament in the seventeenth year of King Edward the fourth.
1713 T. H. Form of Holy Scriptural Divinity 184 Church-Houses, Lands and Tythes, are not devoted and vendible things; but only farmable for the Use and Necessity of Synagogical Pastors.
1828 Reg. Deb. Congr. 4 127 The sixteenth [sic] sections were not always farmable, and it would have been useless to retain them, where they brought in no income.
2. Able to be cultivated.
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1819 Edinb. Advertiser 20 Aug. 114/3 The entry to a purchaser..will be favourable, as the whole farmable lands are in pasture and summer fallow, except about 20 acres under corn crops.
1909 Collier's Weekly 14 Aug. 18/2 The national forests cover an area that is not farmable by any method.
2019 Sherbrooke (Quebec) Record (Nexis) 31 May a1 The farmable land is located between Glenday Road and the future 410 Highway.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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