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Farmer Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Farmer? [n] a person who operates a farm [n] an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915) [n] United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) Synonyms \| Synonyms for Farmer: Fannie Farmer \| Fannie Merritt Farmer \| granger \| husbandman \| James Leonard Farmer \| sodbuster Related Terms \| Find terms related to Farmer: accumulator \| agriculturalist \| agriculturist \| agrologist \| agronomist \| assessor \| Bauer \| bill collector \| boor \| bucolic \| bumpkin \| clod \| clodhopper \| clown \| coffee-planter \| collection agent \| collective farm worker \| collector \| connoisseur \| country bumpkin \| crofter \| cropper \| cultivator \| customhouse \| customs \| dirt farmer \| douanier \| dry farmer \| dunner \| exciseman \| farm laborer \| farmhand \| gatherer \| gentleman farmer \| granger \| grower \| harvester \| harvestman \| haymaker \| hayseed \| hick \| hillbilly \| husbandman \| Internal Revenue Service \| kibbutznik \| kolkhoznik \| kulak \| looby \| lout \| magpie \| miser \| muzhik \| pack rat \| peasant \| peasant holder \| picker \| planter \| plowboy \| plowman \| publican \| raiser \| rancher \| ranchman \| reaper \| revenuer \| rube \| rustic \| sharecropper \| sower \| tax assessor \| tax collector \| tax farmer \| taxer \| taxman \| tea-planter \| tenant farmer \| tiller \| tree farmer \| truck farmer \| yeoman \| yokel See Also \| agriculturist \| apiarist \| apiculturist \| arboriculturist \| beekeeper \| civil rights leader \| civil rights worker \| contadino \| cook \| creator \| cultivator \| dairy farmer \| dairyman \| forester \| grower \| plantation owner \| planter \| raiser \| rancher \| small farmer \| smallholder \| sower \| stock farmer \| stock raiser \| stockman \| tenant farmer \| tiller \| tree farmer Farmer In Webster's Dictionary \Farm"er\, n. [Cf. F. fermier.] One who farms; as: (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. --Smart. (b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. (c) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. (d) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. {Farmer-general} [F. fermier-general], one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down. {Farmers' satin}, a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. --McElrath. {The king's farmer} (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out. --Burrill.

Farmer Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Farmer?

[n] a person who operates a farm
[n] an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
[n] United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

Farmer In Webster's Dictionary

\Farm"er\, n. [Cf. F. fermier.]
One who farms; as:
(a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of
    leased ground; a tenant. --Smart.
(b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who
    cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.
(c) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to
    collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the
    privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.
(d) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot
    and cope of the crown.

{Farmer-general} [F. fermier-general], one to whom the right
   of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was
   farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given
   sum paid down.

{Farmers' satin}, a light material of cotton and worsted,
   used for coat linings. --McElrath.

{The king's farmer} (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection
   of a royal revenue was farmed out. --Burrill.

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