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Definitions for: Farm
[n] workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; "it takes several people to work the farm"
[v] cultivate by growing; often involves improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here"
[v] collect fees or profits
[v] be a farmer; work as a farmer; "My son is farming in California"
Webster (1913) Definition: Farm, n. [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) 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.
To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a
farmer.
Synonyms: grow, produce, raise
See Also: carry, cattle farm, cattle ranch, chicken farm, collect, croft, cultivate, dairy, dairy farm, do work, farm out, farmhouse, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, grange, hire out, home-farm, keep, overproduce, pig farm, piggery, ranch, ranch, rent out, sewage farm, sheeprun, sheepwalk, spread, stud farm, take in, truck farm, truck garden, vinery, vineyard, work, work, workplace
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