单词 | to farm out |
释义 | > as lemmasto farm out transitive. Originally: to clean; to empty or clear out (a ditch, latrine, etc.). Now only in to farm out: to clean out (a stable or other shelter for an animal) by removing dung, soiled straw, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > clean [verb (transitive)] yclense971 cleansea1000 farmOE fayc1220 fowc1350 absterse?a1425 mundify?a1425 muck1429 to cast clean1522 absterge1526 sprinkle1526 reconcile1535 net1536 clengec1540 neat?1575 snuff?1575 rinse1595 deterge1623 scavengea1644 scavenger1645 decrott1653 reform1675 clean1681 deterse1684 fluxa1763 to clean away, offa1839 to clean down1839 scavage1851 untaint1855 to sand and canvas1912 OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) iii. 17 His fann ys on his handa, & he feormað his bernes flore [c1200 Hatton fermed hys bernes flore; L. purgabit aream suam]. lOE Laws: Gerefa (Corpus Cambr.) xiii. 455 Beoddian, bencian, horsan styllan, flor feormian oððe synnes sum ðing ðe to nyte mæge. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings x. 2 Þou schalt fyndyn two men biside þe sepulcre of Rachel..fermynge [altered from lepynge; a1425 L.V. clensynge] grete diches. a1450 (?1419–20) Friar Daw's Reply (Digby) l. 56 in P. L. Heyworth Jack Upland (1968) 74 Haue we not to hewen, Ne wiþ Iakke Uplond ferme þe dikes. a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 16 (MED) To clense and ferme the said privay. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 548/1 I ferme a siege or privy, Jescure. 1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. D1v The fellow sat a long houre farming his mouth. a1728 W. Kennett Etymol. Coll. Eng. Words & Provinc. Expressions (2018) 188/2 Farm, to cleanse or empty. North. Oxf. as to farm kine, to farm a stable or cow-house. 1824 G. H. Jones Acct. Murder William Weare 22 As he was farming out the stable, on Thursday afternoon, he found under the dung a shirt. 1881 A. Parker Gloss. Words Oxfordshire Suppl. (at cited word) Farm out th' 'en-us (hen-house), ŏŏl ee? 1899 A. Clear in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 300/2 [North Buckinghamshire] Boy, you must farm the pigs out. 1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise (2009) i. 11 ‘Feyther’, over and above farming out the sty, bedding down, doctoring, and so on, would even go without his nightly half-pint when, towards the end, the barley-meal bill mounted. to farm out to farm out 1. a. transitive. To lease or let (land) to a tenant in return for a fixed payment. Also occasionally: to rent (land) from a landowner. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > hire or rent out [verb (transitive)] > let or lease land or house to let (also put, set, etc.) (out ,forth) to (alsoin, for) farma1325 set1422 rent1530 farm1576 to farm out1576 vent1603 tenant1721 arrenta1754 1576 W. Burrough in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 439 All which places he doth know for certaine, that they were farmed out to the subiects of the said Emperour, and he the said Emperour receiued yearly the rent for them. 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Pref. 3 The Lands were farm'd out for near the full Rent in money. 1791 Refl. on Present State Brit. Nation 67 These newly-improved lands the public could either farm out, on their own account; or other-wise they might be sold to private purchasers. 1908 Aberystwyth Observer 21 May This was intented [sic] in order to prevent people farming out the land. 2019 Iran Daily (Nexis) 18 June Second, small-scale landlords farmed out their land..and..the final crops would be divided between landlord and tenant based on the tenancy agreement. b. transitive. To hire out (a person or animal) for work. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > hire or rent out [verb (transitive)] let909 hirec1384 rentc1447 to let out1526 locatec1580 wage1590 to farm outa1593 hackney1608 to set out1614 ablocate1623 job1726 to hire out1776 to set off1799 a1593 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid All Elegies (c1602) sig. B3 Only a Woman gets spoiles from a Man Farmes out her-self on nights for what she can. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 72 Other buy Kye to farme them out to other. 1687 J. Oldfield Sincerity 121 How do you think you shall escape, or get pardon, or find mercy at last, that have farmed out your Souls to sin, for the whole term of your lives. 1790 F. Burney Diary Oct. (1842) V. 167 I would farm you out myself for double, treble the money! 1915 Colman's Rural World 8 Apr. 8/1 He has been in the stud as a public stallion, a portion of that time farmed out. 2012 Aggregates Manager Sept. 25/2 ‘We didn't lay anyone off,’ Smith says, ‘we farmed them out to different places’. c. transitive. To lease the collection and revenue of (a tax, charge, etc.) in return for a fixed payment; to lease the duties and profits of (an office or undertaking). ΚΠ 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies iv. ii. 456/1 The King hath farmed out the Master ships of Saint Iacob, Calatraua, & Alcantara to the suckers of Ausburge. a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 11 If I be minded to Farm out my Tithes. 1837 Boston Recorder 8 May 159/1 The Emperor of Russia farms out the ruinous business of vending spiritous liquors to his rich farmers; and the beverage is thus rendered three times as dear as it would be otherwise. 1843 Times 26 June 6/1 The tolls of the highways of this county are farmed out to contractors. 2004 E. J. Remick Building Local States i. ii. 78 In Republican China before 1938, many provincial and county taxes were farmed out. 2. a. transitive. To contract out the care and upkeep of (a person) for monetary payment. Now: spec. to arrange for (a child) to be looked after by someone, esp. for monetary payment.In early use chiefly with reference to the practice of farming paupers; cf. note at sense 4. ΚΠ 1775 T. Mendham Dialogue in Two Conversat. ii. 43 If the Guardians have a power to farm out the Poor,..all is lost. 1823 Statesman (London) 15 Aug. He had been sent, as the best means of getting rid of him, to a house where the parish farmed out their poor at so much per head. 1900 Christian Advocate (New Orleans) 4 Jan. 2/2 Parents who would scorn the idea of farming the child out to a wetnurse physically, have no hesitancy in farming the child out morally. 1952 Observer 4 May 7/4 Miss Withy farms out her children and forgets them. 2013 @EricKruschke 21 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 21 Nov. 2019) We farmed out the kids and spent the weekend at Parknasilla. b. transitive. To contract out (a task or responsibility) for monetary payment. Also in extended use: to delegate or pass on (a task or responsibility). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of [verb (transitive)] > commit to care or custody of another givea1000 beteachc1000 teachc1000 betake1297 trust1340 bekena1375 commenda1382 putc1390 recommanda1393 commitc1405 recommendc1405 resignc1425 allot1473 commise1474 commanda1500 consign1528 in charge (of)1548 credit1559 incommend1574 entrusta1586 aret1590 be-giftc1590 concredit1593 betrust1619 concrede1643 subcommit1681 to farm out1786 confide1861 fide1863 doorstep1945 to foster out1960 1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings 4 Apr. vii. 105 The farming out the defence of a country to a contractor..could have no real object but to enrich the contractor at the Company's expence. 1862 W. W. Story Roba di Roma (1864) iii. 34 The support of these..criminal slaves is farmed out..to some responsible person at the lowest rate that is offered. 1886 Methodist Rev. July 605 They ‘farm out’ the work that they ought themselves to do. 1946 Musical Q. 32 144 When a work of literary and scholarly merit on or about music is sent in, the editor farms it out to a recognized expert in the field. 2000 T. Tapper & D. Palfreyman Oxf. & Decline Collegiate Trad. (2005) v. 115 Once tutorial teaching is farmed out, be it to the fellows of other colleges or to graduate students, then a measure of control is inevitably ceded. 2019 Indianapolis Business Jrnl. (Nexis) 13 Nov. Album cover design and liner notes are done in-house, while the actual record pressing is farmed out to one of the roughly 10 remaining U.S.-based record-pressing companies. c. transitive. colloquial. Chiefly at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. To send (a student) to a tutor outside his or own college. Now somewhat dated. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [verb (transitive)] > send to outside tutor to farm out1954 1954 G. Smith Flaw in Crystal vii. 60 Unless he was farmed out to another college, and I don't think they'd have done that with one of their best men. 1976 J. I. M. Stewart Memorial Service viii. 121 They've farmed him out to a chap in some obscure college across the High. 2006 PN Rev. 33 35 The Merton men would resent being ‘farmed out’ to a Scot scarcely older than themselves. 3. transitive. Originally and chiefly Baseball. In early use: to loan (a player under contract with a major league team) to a minor league team; (now) to assign (such a player) to an affiliated minor league team, typically for further training and development (see farm team n. 2). Frequently with to.In quot. 1877 with reference to loaning a player to another major league team. ΚΠ 1877 Chicago Tribune 19 Aug. 7/7 It is not settled whether Manning will go back to Boston or be farmed out to Cincinnati for next year. 1887 Detroit Free Press 18 May 2/3 A strong fight is being made against the new scheme of league clubs ‘farming’ out surplus players to minor association clubs. 1895 Washington Post 2 July 4/3 Manager Arthur Irwin, of the Phillies, has again farmed out Pitcher Tom Smith to the Hazleton Club, of the Pennsylvania State League. 1952 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 3 Aug. b4/4 Durocher had promised Corwin when the young right-hander was farmed out earlier in the year that he would be recalled for the Giants' late-season drive. 2000 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 4 June The shortstop..was farmed out to ‘extended spring training’ in Florida last week. 4. transitive. Mining and Oil Industry. To transfer (a share in the rights to explore for oil or gas on a given tract of land) to an investor. Cf. farmout n. 1b. ΚΠ 1966 Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. W. Austral. 1965 43/2 Permit to Explore 227H is held by West Australian Petroleum Pty. Ltd. and has been farmed out to Continental Oil Company of Australia Ltd. 1987 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 4 Sept. 35 Nugold has farmed out a 50 per cent interest in the old Black Jack mine, near Menzies, to Carr Boyd Minerals Ltd. 2019 Press & Jrnl. (Dundee) (Electronic ed.) 17 Sept. 30 CLNR [= Cluff Natural Resources] farmed out 70% of the licence containing the 100-million-barrel Pensacola prospect to Shell, which took over as operator. < as lemmas |
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