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Farm

noun

Workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit.

verb

(past & past part. farmed; pres. part. farming)

Be a farmer; work as a farmer.

Collect fees or profits.

Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques. Synonyms: grow, produce, raise. "They produce good ham in Parma" , "We grow wheat here" , "We raise hogs here"

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... at Shotter Mill, but she and Mr. Lewes lived in such seclusion that there was very little to be told. They seldom crossed their threshold during the day, but wandered over the commons and hills after sundown. They were very anxious to lodge at the picturesque old farm, ten minutes' walk beyond Brookbank, but all available room was then occupied. However, George Eliot would often visit the farmer's wife, and, sitting on a grassy bank just beside the kitchen door, would discuss the growth of fruit and the quality of butter in a manner so quiet ...

— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke

... send Hans as soon as possible with a pair of horses to the hill farm for her. It is too cold for her to be up there ...

— Three Comedies • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson

... married to Frank Bell in a fortnight's time. Mrs. Spencer was pleased with the match. She was very fond of Frank, and his farm was so near to her own that she would not lose Rachel altogether. Rachel fondly believed that her mother would not lose her at all; but Isabella Spencer, wiser by olden experience, knew what her daughter's ...

— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... because his inheritance cannot be removed, and it would be improbable that he should risk the loss of it by eloping from his district, which is too frequently practised by a farmer when he is hard-pressed for the payment of his balances, and as frequently predetermined when he receives his farm." That, notwithstanding all the preceding declarations made by the said Warren Hastings of the loss of one third of the inhabitants and general decline of the country, he did, immediately after his appointment to the government, in the year 1772, make an arbitrary settlement of ...

— The Works Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IX. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... This is one of a few lines in which he requests Mr. Lear's acceptance of some garden seeds for his garden and farm. They were portions of some sent to him from England to be planted ...

— Washington in Domestic Life • Richard Rush

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