farmer
/ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ noun A1- A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
- One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent. · a farmer of the revenues
- The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
- A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
- A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).
Plural farmers
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The “Avenue,” so called by the Newbridge people, was a stretch of road four or five hundred yards long, completely arched over with huge, wide-spreading apple-trees, planted years ago by an eccentric old farmer.
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.
Evidently the Munchkins were good farmers and able to raise large crops.
“What is that?” asked Dorothy; “the Munchkin farmer who made you?”
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