farmsteadern.
/ˈfɑːmstɛdə/, U.S. /ˈfɑrmˌstɛdər/ A person who lives and works on a farmstead. rare before 20th cent.; quot. 1822 shows an apparently isolated early use, in a work of historical fiction.
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1822 ‘L. Gibbons’ Malpas III. ii. 38 The yeomanry hath your granger, or farm-steader, undertaken.
1907 Sante Fe New Mexican 21 Aug. 3/3 The idea of yielding justice to Mexican farm-steaders originated in 1889.
1980 Poetry 135 238 R. G. Vliet is a farmsteader, beekeeper, carpenter, and graduate of Yale.
2011 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 24 June n19 Almost all the cheeses are made by families, Amish, Mennonite, middle of nowhere farmsteaders that have been doing it for generations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1822- the clock is ticking
- the clock round
- the cloister
- the closer the bone the sweeter the meat
- the clot
- the cloth
- the cloth is all of another hue
- the clothes one stands up in
- the coach dines
- the coal sack
- the coast
- the coast is clear
- the cockpit of europe
- the coffee
- the colonel
- the colours of rhetoric
- the comfortable words
- the coming of the cocklicranes
- the common beam
- the common file
- the common purse
- the common road
- the commonwealth
- the company of stationers
- the comparison of