farmer : Idioms & Phrases

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baby farmer

  • noun someone who runs an establishment that houses and cares for babies for a fee
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Ba"by farm`er
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  1. One who keeps a baby farm.
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dairy farmer

  • noun the owner or manager of a dairy
    dairyman.
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fannie farmer

  • noun an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
    Fannie Farmer; Farmer.
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fannie merritt farmer

  • noun an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
    Fannie Farmer; Farmer.
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farmer's calendar

  • noun an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year
    almanac.
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farmer's cheese

  • noun mild white cheese made from curds of soured skim milk
    pot cheese; farm cheese; cottage cheese.
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farmer's lung

  • noun alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay
    thresher's lung.
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farmer's market

  • noun an open-air marketplace for farm products
    green market; greenmarket.
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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.
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farmer-labor party

  • noun a former minor political party in the United States in the early 20th century
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Farmers' satin

  • a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. McElrath.
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Gong farmer, Gong man

  • a cleaner of privies. Obs.
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james leonard farmer

  • noun United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
    Farmer.
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sharecrop farmer

  • noun small farmers and tenants
    cropper; sharecropper.
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small farmer

  • noun a farmer on a small farm
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Stock farmer

  • noun farmer who breed or raises livestock
    stock raiser; stockman.
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  • a farmer who makes it his business to rear live stock.
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tenant farmer

  • noun a farmer who works land owned by someone else
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The king's farmer

  • (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out.
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tree farmer

  • noun someone trained in forestry
    forester; arboriculturist.
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