farmer

5 definitions found

farmer - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Farmer \Farm"er\ (f[aum]rm"[~e]r), 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.
         [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

farmer - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  farmer
      n 1: a person who operates a farm [syn: farmer, husbandman,
           granger, sodbuster]
      2: United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the
         Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) [syn: Farmer,
         James Leonard Farmer]
      3: an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many
         editions (1857-1915) [syn: Farmer, Fannie Farmer, Fannie   Merritt Farmer
         ]

farmer - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Farmer, NC
    Zip code(s): 27203
  Farmer, SD (town, FIPS 21060)
    Location: 43.72477 N, 97.68815 W
    Population (1990): 23 (12 housing units)
    Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 57311

farmer - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  FARMER. One who is lessee of a farm. it is said that every lessee for life 
  or years, although it be but of a small house and land, is called farmer. 
  This word implies no mystery except it be that of husbandman. Cunn. Dict.
  h.t. In common parlance, a farmer is one who cultivates a farm, whether he be
  
  the owner of it or not. 
  
  

farmer - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "farmer":
     Bauer, Internal Revenue Service, accumulator, agriculturalist,
     agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, assessor, 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, 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