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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