See Also: Farmer(medicine)
farmer(dictionary)
FARMER(law)
farmer(dictionary)
dirt farmer(dictionary)
Farmer's Almanac(encyclopedia)
tenant farmer(dictionary)
Farmer (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
farmer's skin(medicine)
Farmer, Fannie(dictionary)

farmer (iou)



farmer noun. LME.
[Anglo-Norman fermer, Old & mod. French fermier, combining uses of medieval Latin firmarius, firmator, from firma: see FARM noun. In more mod. uses prob. from FARM verb2 + -ER1.]
A person who is allowed to collect and keep the revenues from taxes etc. in return for a fixed sum. LME.
H. Ainsworth Speculators, farmers of revenues, and others.
A person who cultivates land for the owner; a bailiff, a steward. LME-L16.
Orig., a person who rents land for the purpose of cultivation. Now gen., a person who cultivates a farm, as tenant or owner; one who farms land or rears certain animals (usu. of a specified kind). LME.
dairy farmer, fish-farmer, mink-farmer, poultry-farmer, trout-farmer, etc.
b. A person who leases a weir or mill. LME-E16.
A person who farms children (derog.), a task, etc. M19.
baby-farmer.
Comb.: farmer-general, pl. farmers-general, [translating French fermier general] a person who collected taxes etc. in a district of France before the Revolution; farmer's lung a pulmonary disease caused by allergy to fungal spores from mouldy hay etc.; farmers' market: where produce of local farmers and growers is sold directly to the public.
farmeress noun (now rare) (a) a woman who farms land; (b) a farmer's wife: L16.
farme'rette noun (chiefly US) a woman or girl who farms land E20.
farmerly adjective like a farmer M17-L18.