farmer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Someone or something that farms, as:

   A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

2. 2
   noun

   One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.

   a farmer of the revenues

3. 3
   name

   A surname.

   It all started when Nick Farmer bought George R. R. Martin a drink, but the plot really thickened when the linguist met Martin’s then-assistant Ty Franck.

4. 4
   noun

   a person who operates a farm

5. 5
   noun

   The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

6. 6
   noun

   A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.

7. 7
   noun

   A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).

8. 8
   name

   the Soviet MiG 19 aircraft.

Etymology

From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma; equivalent to farm + -er. Compare Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”). More at farm.