farmer

farmer
—farmerlike, adj.
/fahr"meuhr/, n.
1. a person who farms; person who operates a farm or cultivates land.
2. an unsophisticated person from a rural area; yokel.
3. a person who undertakes some service, as the care of children or the poor, at a fixed price.
4. a person who undertakes the collection of taxes, duties, etc., paying a fixed sum for the privilege of retaining them.
5. Cards.
a. a variety of twenty-one played with a 45-card pack, the object being to obtain cards having a total worth of 16.
b. the dealer in this game.
[1350-1400; ME fermer < AF; OF fermier collector of revenue. See FARM, -ER2]

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(as used in expressions)
Farmer's Almanac
Farmer Fannie Merritt
Farmer Labor Party

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