farm /färm/

1. A tract of land (orig one leased or rented) used for cultivation and pasturage, along with a house and other necessary buildings
2. A farmhouse
3. A farmstead
4. A piece of land or water used for breeding animals (eg mink farm or oyster farm)
5. A place for treatment and disposal (eg sewage farm)
6. A place where people are handed over to be taken care of (eg baby farm)
7. A fixed payment (obsolete)
8. A lease (Spenser)
9. A fixed payment by way of taxes, etc (historical)
10. The letting out of the right to collect rents, taxes, etc in exchange for a fixed sum (historical)

Of, belonging to, appropriate to, a farm

1. To cultivate
2. To rear (animals) for sale
3. To use as a farm
4. To arrange for maintenance of at fixed price
5. To grant or receive the rents, taxes, etc from for a fixed sum
6. To rent to or from another person

To practise the business of a farmer

farmˈable adjective

farmed adjective

(of animals, esp fish) reared on a farm rather than wild

farmˈer noun

1. A person who farms land
2. The tenant of a farm
3. A person who receives taxes, etc in return for fixed payment

farˈmeress noun (rare)

A female farmer

farmˈery noun

The buildings of a farm

farmˈing noun

The business of cultivating land

farmer general noun

A member of a group who, in pre-Revolutionary France, had bought the right to receive certain taxes

Farmer Giles plural noun (Brit and Aust rhyming sl)

Piles, haemorrhoids

farmer’s lung noun

A lung disease caused by the spores of the fungus actinomycetes which develop in hay baled while it is still damp

farmers’ market noun

A market where food producers sell their products directly to local consumers

farm'-gate' price noun

The average price received for a food product by its producer

farm hand or farm labourer noun

A person who works on a farm for wages

farmˈhouse noun

The farmer's house attached to a farm

farmhouse loaf noun

An oval or rectangular loaf of white bread with a rounded top

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