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单词 to farm off-hand
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to farm (also hold, etc.) off-hand
3. English regional (chiefly East Anglian). to farm (also hold, etc.) off-hand: to own or hold a farm or farmland without residing on it.
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to farm (also hold, etc.) off-hand1807
sharecrop1893
cocky1899
share-farm1903
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1807 A. Young Agric. Essex i. 45 The houses of small farms, whether holden off-hand, or inhabited by the farmers themselves, are frequently wretched hovels.
1879 Norfolk Archaeol. 8 171 A farmer having an occupation apart from his homestead is said to farm it off-hand.
1898 Longman's Mag. Sept. 408 The land had been farmed ‘off-hand’, that is to say, the tenant did not live on the farm, but put in a working bailiff.
1999 R. Malster Mardler's Compan. 54/1 A farmer who has an outlying field or holding separate from the homestead is said to farm it off-hand.
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