About The Word Farmer
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Farmer Definition And Meaning |
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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.
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