Definitions for: 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)



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: Fannie Farmer, Fannie Merritt Farmer, granger, husbandman, James Leonard Farmer, sodbuster

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

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