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FARM
farm
(noun) workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; âit takes several people to work the farmâ
grow, raise, farm, produce
(verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; âThe Bordeaux region produces great red winesâ; âThey produce good ham in Parmaâ; âWe grow wheat hereâ; âWe raise hogs hereâ
farm
(verb) collect fees or profits
farm
(verb) be a farmer; work as a farmer; âMy son is farming in Californiaâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
farm (plural farms)
A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
(usually, in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures
(computing) A group of coordinated servers.
(obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.
(obsolete) A banquet; feast.
(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
(historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc, in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a âfarmerâ; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
The body of farmers of public revenues.
The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
Verb
farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)
(intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
(transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
(transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc, on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
(obsolete) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
(obsolete) To take at a certain rent or rate.
(video games, chiefly, online gaming) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
Etymology 2
Verb
farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)
(UK, dialectal) To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out
Anagrams
• AFRM
Source: Wiktionary
Farm, n. Etym: [OE. ferme rent, lease, F. ferme, LL. firma, fr. L. firmus firm, fast, firmare to make firm or fast. See Firm, a. & n.]
1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products. [Obs.]
2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. [Obs.] It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. Spenser.
3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.
Note: In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent, continue to be in a great degree inseparable, even from the popular meaning of a farm, as they are entirely so from the legal sense. Burrill.
5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. The province was devided into twelve farms. Burke.
6. (O. Eng. Law)
Definition: A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. State Trials (1196).
Farm, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Farming.]
1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. We are enforced to farm our royal realm. Shak.
2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. Burke.
3. To take at a certain rent or rate.
4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm. To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent.
Farm, v. i.
Definition: To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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