单词 | farmlet |
释义 | farmletn. Now chiefly Australian and New Zealand. A small farm, now esp. one that is kept for pleasure. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > small holding or croft manslotOE bargain1602 burgaine1607 smallholding1696 possession1717 farmlet1794 homecroft1828 croft1850 crofting1851 five-acre1863 three acres and a cow1885 farmette1913 minifundium1950 minifundioa1955 1794 W. Marshall Gen. View Agric. Central Highlands Scotl. 25 These officiaries contain from one to three square miles of valley lands each..comprising from ten to twenty ‘towns’ or farms; each farm, or petty township, being subdivided into farmlets; generally from two to six or eight in number. 1881 Athenæum 9 Apr. 490/2 They retire from business, buy a farmlet..and resolve to live happily ever after. 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling i. 3 A general store, a row of workmen's cottages, and a few farmlets chucked in, constitute the altered town. 1998 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 10 June Mrs McKay still rides and looks after horses and ponies on her farmlet. 2018 @anujkrishan 8 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 1 July 2019) Such a bountiful harvest from our farmlet today. Nature just keeps giving. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1794 |
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