| 单词 | to farm off-hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto farm (also hold, etc.) off-hand 3. English regional (chiefly East Anglian). to farm (also hold, etc.) off-hand: to own or hold a farm or farmland without residing on it. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [verb (intransitive)] > types of farming to farm (also hold, etc.) off-hand1807 sharecrop1893 cocky1899 share-farm1903 nest1918 1807 A. Young Agric. Essex i. 45 The houses of small farms, whether holden off-hand, or inhabited by the farmers themselves, are frequently wretched hovels. 1879 Norfolk Archaeol. 8 171 A farmer having an occupation apart from his homestead is said to farm it off-hand. 1898 Longman's Mag. Sept. 408 The land had been farmed ‘off-hand’, that is to say, the tenant did not live on the farm, but put in a working bailiff. 1999 R. Malster Mardler's Compan. 54/1 A farmer who has an outlying field or holding separate from the homestead is said to farm it off-hand. < as lemmas |
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