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▪ I. farming, vbl. n.|ˈfɑːmɪŋ|
[f. farm v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. farm.
1. The action or system of farming (out) or letting out to farm (the revenue, etc.).
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Arrendamiento, letting, ferming. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. 360 This and other practices of farming..hath been a great trade in Ireland. 1786Burke W. Hastings Wks. XII. 121 The farming out of the defence of a country..could have no real object but to enrich the contractor at the Company's expense. 1845McCulloch Taxation Introd. (1852) 31 Bentham..has endeavoured to show that farming is in every case the preferable mode of collection. 1877Dowden Shaks. Prim. vi. 88 His farming of the realm.
2. The business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc.; agriculture, husbandry.
1733W. Ellis (title), Chiltern and Vale Farming explained. 1767A. Young Farmer's Lett. People 294 When I am told that farming answers to gentlemen..I never believe it. 1819Edin. Rev. XXXII. 464 Capital..expended on what is called high farming. 1878Jevons Primer Pol. Econ. 90 As agriculture becomes more a science, farming will require greater skill.
3. attrib. and Comb. Simple attributive (sense 1), as farming-system; (sense 2), as farming-country, farming-interest, farming-land, farming-life, farming-operation, farming-plan, farming-regulation; farming-office = farm-office; farming-stock, the live stock and produce of a farm.
a1764Lloyd Spirit Contradiction Poet. Wks. 1774 II. 144 Friend Jerkin..rented, on the farming plan Grounds at much greater sums per ann. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. xi. (1869) I. 152 The ordinary profits of farming-stock in the neighbourhood. 1792A. Young Trav. France 131 A very..commodious house, with farming-offices, on the most ample and solid scale. 1799Morning Post in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1800) III. 10 Any bye-laws or farming-regulations. 1828–40Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 240 note, The farming operations of ploughing and harrowing. 1845McCulloch Taxation ii. iv. (1852) 202 The farming interest was far more depressed after the peace. 1872Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 287 Large areas of farming and garden land.
▪ II. farming, ppl. a.|ˈfɑːmɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That farms, in senses of the vb.
1551Edw. VI. Disc. Ref. Abuses in Lit. Rem. (Roxb.) II. 482 True gentlemen (I meane not theis ferming gentlemen, nor clarking knightes). 1885Edwards in Encycl. Brit. (ed. 9) XIX. 580 It put a board of postmasters in room of a farming postmaster-general. |