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Farm   /fɑrm/   Listen
noun
Farm  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."
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.
5.
A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. "The province was devided into twelve farms."
6.
(O. Eng. Law) 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."


verb
Farm  v. t.  (past & past part. farmed; pres. part. 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."
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."
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.  To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.





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"Farm" Quotes from Famous Books



... Well, that might be a very good thing if you don't need him to help you about the farm, or our grounds. I should think ...
— Elsie at Nantucket • Martha Finley
... into the undulating plain country, with its villages and farm lands, diversified by woods, and sometimes solitary projections of rock, as the stars stole urgently into the sky, as the phosphori lamps began their soft illumination of the decks, and while murmurs of songs from merrymakers on the land came ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap
... Four Little Blossoms but Daddy Blossom called them Bobby, Meg and the twins. The twins, Twaddles and Dot, were a comical pair and always getting into mischief. The children had heaps of fun around the big farm, and had several real adventures ...
— Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall - or, Leading a Needed Rebellion • Janet D. Wheeler
... matches, bottle of Jimmy Hennessy, and some water and biscuits. What more can you want? Who wouldn't sell a farm and ...
— Tessa - 1901 • Louis Becke
... Johnson having mentioned to me the extraordinary size and price of some cattle reared by Dr. Taylor, I rode out with our host, surveyed his farm, and was shown one cow which he had sold for a hundred and twenty guineas, and another for which he had been offered a hundred and thirty[421]. Taylor thus described to me his old schoolfellow and friend, Johnson: 'He is a man of a very clear head, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill


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