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Farmed

Farm \Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Farming.]

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

    We are enforced to farm our royal realm.
    --Shak.

  2. 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; as, to farm the taxes.

    To farm their subjects and their duties toward these.
    --Burke.

  3. To take at a certain rent or rate.

  4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.

    To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent.

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farmed

vb. (en-past of: farm)

Usage examples of "farmed".

The Aggies had already elected to use fields the same size the Farmers had, since the arable land seemed to divide into such sections: another clue that this continent might once have been farmed too.

There were also extensive mainland mounds at Turner River that were later farmed by Chokoloskee pioneers.

It looks like only one other one is being farmed as intensively as this.

At this reminder that they live on Botany on sufferance, the entire colony decides that they should show goodwill to their unknown landlords by leaving the farmed continent on which they were dropped and moving to a smaller, unused continent across a small strait.

This whole ransom business meant that Zainal would have to suspend his plan to seek out the Farmers' home world, or at least whatever depot they used to store the grain and the meat they farmed on Botany.

There was forty acres on that Pavioni mound, but we farmed just the one, for our own use.

If his friends farmed the few pieces of high ground, he would control the whole Ten Thousand Islands.

Laura kept her little store and William farmed good cane at Half Way Creek.

The only law-abiding help was Hannah Smith, great big strong woman, farmed awhile on them Turner River mounds at Old Man McKinney's place, where he called Needhelp, not so far from where our family settled when the House clan first come down into this country.

In fact, it seemed to be a planet extensively farmed by mechanized, highly sophisticated machinery, operating without any 'live' supervision.

The loggers had been asked not to cut down the oldest trees, and were given permission to thin the other varieties grown on the second farmed continent as these were softer woods, more suitable for 'the making of useful artifacts .

Bellamy did insist, however, that the new tenant who was farming the land he had acquired east of Line Camp start to plow in the new way, and although they grumbled at “fancy-pants ideas of men who never farmed,” they did agree to plow along the contours, but since there was neither wind nor flood, they accomplished nothing, and in the fall of 1925 Bellamy saw to his disgust that they had reverted to long, straight furrows, uphill and down.

In the old country, land was held by the king and given to his great lords for their services to him, and it was farmed by serfs.

In the mountains we farmed a hundred and sixty acres, and had as much around that was brush and timber, too steep to farm.

Out of that quarter section that we farmed we made a bare living, for there was thin soil and poor crops.