farmhouse

1. an area of land, including buildings, used for growing crops, breeding and keeping cows, sheep, pigs etc. Much of England is good agricultural land and there are many farms.

2. the farmer's house and the buildings near it in such a place. We visited the farm; (also adjective) a farm kitchen.

verb

to cultivate (the land) in order to grow crops, breed and keep animals etc. He farms (5,000 acres) in the south.

ˈfarmer noun

the owner or tenant of a farm who works on the land etc. How many farmworkers does that farmer employ?

ˈfarming noun

the business of owning or running a farm. There is a lot of money involved in farming; (also adjective) farming communities.

ˈfarmhouse noun

the house in which a farmer lives.

ˈfarmyard noun

the open area surrounded by the farm buildings. There were several hens loose in the farmyard; (also adjective) farmyard animals.

farmhouse

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A FARMER'S daughter was carrying her Pail of milk from the field to the farmhouse, when she fell a-musing.

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Do you see any objection to accompanying me to the farmhouse to- morrow?"

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At some little distance from the farmhouse was a spring with a constant flow of clear, cold water, whence the family derived its supply for domestic use at all seasons.

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They passed a large and comfortable farmhouse, surrounded by wandering barns and cow-sheds, went on under forest arches, and emerged beside a field with which Saxon was instantly enchanted.

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His appearance, therefore, is apt to occasion some little stir at the tea-table of a farmhouse, and the addition of a supernumerary dish of cakes or sweetmeats, or, peradventure, the parade of a silver teapot.

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This was mostly a journey to the farmhouse on the slopes above the vale, to inquire how the advanced cows were getting on in the straw-barton to which they were relegated.

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"I will do it with pleasure," she said--and hastened away to the farmhouse.

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This time, in the middle of the clearing, he saw a small farmhouse. There were no signs of life.

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The Monkeys had set them down near a farmhouse, and the four travelers walked up to it and knocked at the door.

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Melville resided in New York City until 1850, when they purchased a farmhouse at Pittsfield, their farm adjoining that formerly owned by Mr.

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The farmhouse, which stood on a little elevation some hundred yards from the tenant house, had undergone a complete transformation during the three weeks that Clayton and Mr.

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Dinah's family lived in a small farmhouse, up a green lane, close by a meadow with some fine shady trees; there were two cows feeding in it.