Word Finder - farm

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A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.

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A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.

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(usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures

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antenna farm

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A group of coordinated servers.

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a render farm

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Food; provisions; a meal.

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A banquet; feast.

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A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.

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A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.

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The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.

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The body of farmers of public revenues.

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The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.

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To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.

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To devote (land) to farming.

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To grow (a particular crop).

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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; to farm out.

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to farm the taxes

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To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

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To take at a certain rent or rate.

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To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.

A farm boy gone city.

He spent every evening tending his farm, as he called it.

The only business experience she had was the goat dairy, the non-functional farm and a horse ranch that had been in the fetal stage for years.

The farm of the future will have neither.

When you live on a farm you learn to expect days like this and roll with the punches.

He was raised on a South Carolina farm by a red neck father who didn't have two cotton balls to rub together.

On the way to Bogucharovo, a princely estate with a dwelling house and farm where they hoped to find many domestic serfs and pretty girls, they questioned Lavrushka about Napoleon and laughed at his stories, and raced one another to try Ilyin's horse.

My little Sabine farm is dear to me; for here I spend my happiest days, far from the noise and strife of the world.

He's gone back to that farm, and that's where he'll stay.

If you hadn't sold off all the farm equipment, you could have kept it brush hogged.

A hundred years ago, there had been a homestead known as Thistle Farm there, but no remnants remained.

Is it for my own pleasure that I am at the farm or in the office from morning to night?

She had not been reported missing because her mother lay dead in their small rural farm house over a hundred miles away.

Ouray County doesn't have a farm vote.

Josh's mother and father lived on a farm within walking distance of Carmen and Alex – and from the farm where Lori and Josh lived when Josh died.

The money and the farm meant nothing to Carmen.

I imagine she figures if she gets Destiny, she'll get the farm and the insurance money.

The farm doesn't pay as much, but it's more rewarding.

It wasn't Katie's farm and this pity party wasn't getting the chores done.

He had no regard for the sentimental value of the farm where she grew up, nor any confidence that she was capable of running it.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

The home, now known as Eight Maples Farm, had been a gathering place for travelers seeking good music and refreshments, over two hundred years ago.

The way he had assumed command of the farm then had annoyed her, and yet, it had made him that much more appealing.

Without selling the farm, she had no money.

If the farm of the future plugs into the national grid, it will become part of the national food strategy and can be optimized for financial yield for the owners.

Nor is there any man so independent on his farm that he can say them nay.

I asked my mother about visiting the country or a farm and she insisted I'd never travelled anywhere but here in New Hampshire until I left for the seminary.

You could find the farm house, couldn't you?

Soon the road opened to the beautiful meadow of Thistle Farm.

I'm like some poor farm girl, barefoot as the day I was born.

The only thing on my mind is keeping this farm solvent.

But I can't ask you two to take care of my farm that long.

If, on the other hand, they want self-sufficiency in agriculture, then farm subsidies in other countries are bad for them.

The farm of today already has tractors that use GPS to make perfectly parallel rows with great precision.

How do I reconcile my personal choices with my statement that the farm of the future is a good thing?

Third, the day will come when the farm of the future will make a healthier, less expensive, more ecologically friendly, fresher, and better-tasting product.

Howie spotted Cummings picking up Jennie Lohr as she hitchhiked to town from her rural Kansas farm.

She didn't want to live in Houston any more than he wanted to live on a goat farm.

Given more time, he'd have preferred to put the bike on the car's rack and chew up some countryside miles, tour­ing the hills and farm lands that surrounded Parkside.

Finally, in the Baltic provinces nearly all the land belongs to the German landlords, who either farm the land themselves, with hired labourers, or let it in small farms. Only one-fourth of the peasants are farmers, the remainder being mere labourers, who are emigrating in great numbers.

The port has a small trade in coal, live-stock and farm produce.

The state institutions, each governed by a board of trustees, and all under the supervision of the state board of charity, include a state hospital at Tewksbury, for paupers (1866); a state farm at Bridgewater (1887) for paupers and petty criminals; the Lyman school for boys at Westboro, a reformatory for male criminals under fifteen years of age sentenced to imprisonment for terms less than life in connexion with which a very successful farm is maintained for the younger boys at Berlin; an industrial school for girls at Lancaster, also a reformatory school - a third reformatory school for boys was planned in 1909; a state sanatorium at Rutland for tuberculous patients (the first public hospital for such in the United States) and a hospital school at Canton for the care and instruction of crippled and deformed children.

Despite these disasters Burgoyne pushed south to Stillwater, where he was defeated by Gates's improvised army of continentals and militia in two battles on the 19.th of September (Freeman's Farm) and the 7th of October (Bemis's Height).

The buildings devoted to hospitality are divided into three groups, - one for the reception of distinguished guests, another for monks visiting the monastery, a third for poor travellers and pilgrims. The first and third are placed to the right and left of the common entrance of the monastery, - the hospitium for distinguished guests being placed on the north side of the church, not far from the abbot's house; that for the poor on the south side next to the farm buildings.

Georgian Bay and the northern part of Lake Huron with the whole northern margin of Lake Superior bathe the foot of the Laurentian plateau, which rises directly from these lakes; so that the older fertile lands of the country with their numerous cities and largely-developed manufactures are cut off by an elevated, rocky and mostly forest-covered tract of the Archean from the newer and far more extensive farm lands of the west.

The government promotes the extension of markets for farm products; it maintains officers in the United Kingdom who make reports from time to time on the condition in which Canadian goods are delivered from the steamships, and also on what they can learn from importing and distributing merchants regarding the preferences of the market for different qualities of farm goods and different sorts of packages.

Wheat well repays careful attention; contrast the produce of a carelessly tilled Russian or Indian field and the bountiful yield on a good Lincolnshire farm, the former with its average yield of 8 bushels, the latter with its 50 bushels per acre; or compare the quality, as regards the quantity and flavour of the flour from a fine sample of British wheat, such as is on sale at almost every agricultural show in Great Britain, with the produce of an Egyptian or Syrian field; the difference is so great as to cause one to doubt whether the berries are of the same species.

The constitution of 1901 exempted a homestead of 80 acres of farm land, or of a house and lot not exceeding $2000 in value, from liability for any debt contracted since the 30th of July 1868 except for a mortage on it to which the wife consented; personal property to the value of $l000 is exempted.

The sugar-cane crop declined in value after 1890, and each year more of it was made into syrup. In 1908 the tobacco crop was 2,705,625 lb, and the average farm price was 35 cents, being nearly as high as that of the Florida crop; Sumatra leaf for wrappers is grown successfully..

In September 1908, after an investigation which showed that many wardens had been in the pay of convict lessees and that terrible cruelty had been practised in convict camps, an extra session of the legislature practically put an end to the convict lease or contract system; the act then passed provided that after the 31st of March 1909, the date of expiration of leases in force, no convicts may be leased for more than twelve months and none may be leased at all unless there are enough convicts to supply all demands for convict labour on roads made by counties, each county to receive its pro rata share on a population basis, and to satisfy all demands made by municipalities which thus secure labour for $100 per annum (per man) paid into the state treasury, and all demands made by the state prison farm and factory established by this law.