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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Farmer \Farm"er\ (f[aum]rm"[~e]r), noun [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.
{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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
farmer
noun
1: a person who operates a farm [syn: {husbandman}, {granger}, {sodbuster}]
2: United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) [syn: {James Leonard Farmer}]
3: an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915) [syn: {Fannie Farmer}, {Fannie Merritt Farmer}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Farmer, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota Population (2000): 18 Housing Units (2000): 10 Land area (2000): 0.063721 sq. miles (0.165037 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.063721 sq. miles (0.165037 sq. km) FIPS code: 21060 Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46 Location: 43.724747 N, 97.688492 W ZIP Codes (1990): 57311 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Farmer, SD Farmer
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