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farmling

farmling noun: a small farm.

Noun

farmling (plural farmlings)

  1. (rare) A small farm.
    • ‘ . . . I, the son of John and Grace Barnes, was born at Rush-hay, a farmling at Bagber in the Parish of Sturminster Newton in the Vale of Blackmore’a. 1887, William Barnes, quotee, “William Barnes: 1800-1886”, in Geoffrey Grigson, editor, The Mint: A Miscellany of Literature, Art and Criticism, London: Routledge and Sons Ltd, published 1946...
    • And Plough-month peters out . . its thermal power / Squandered in sighs and poems and hopeless thought, / Which corn and honey, wine, soap, wax, oil ought / Upon my farmling to have chivvied into flower.1967, John Berryman, Berryman’s Sonnets, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 41
    Synonyms:
    farmlet

Synonyms of farmling

Forms of farmling

pluralfarmlings

Origin of farmling

From farm + -ling.

Questions about farmling

What does farmling mean?
Farmling means a small farm.
What part of speech is farmling?
Farmling is a noun.
What is the plural of farmling?
The plural of farmling is farmlings.

Words near farmling in the dictionary

  1. farmless
  2. farmlessness
  3. farmlet
  4. farmlets
  5. farmlike
  6. farmling
  7. farmlings
  8. farmly
  9. farmman
  10. farmmen
  11. farmor

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