The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baby farmer
Baby farmer \Ba"by farm`er\ One who keeps a baby farm.
Wiktionary
baby farmer
n. One who keeps a baby farm.
WordNet
baby farmer
n : someone who runs an establishment that houses and cares for babies for a fee
Usage examples of "baby farmer".
The baby farmer says Davies planted Johnny on her, as a friend's child, name James Smith, paying twenty pounds to be rid of him for ever and then turned up to - night askin' her to get rid of him quick for another fifty.
In Britain, one of the most notorious cases of strangling was that of Amelia Dyer, known as the `Baby Farmer', who choked to death at least seven children who were left in her care before her arrest and execution at Newgate Prison in 1896.