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underfarmer

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farm⋅er

  [fahr-mer]
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–noun
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.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME fermer < AF; OF fermier collector of revenue. See farm, -er 2

Related forms:
farm⋅er⋅like, adjective
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