farmer
    n 1: a person who operates a farm [syn: farmer, husbandman,
         granger, sodbuster]
    2: United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the
       Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) [syn: Farmer,
       James Leonard Farmer]
    3: an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many
       editions (1857-1915) [syn: Farmer, Fannie Farmer, Fannie
       Merritt Farmer]

Farmer \Farm"er\ (f[aum]rm"[~e]r), n. [Cf. F. fermier.]
   One who farms; as:
   (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of
       leased ground; a tenant. --Smart.
   (b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who
       cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.
   (c) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to
       collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the
       privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.
   (d) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot
       and cope of the crown.
       [1913 Webster]

   Farmer-general [F. fermier-general], one to whom the right
      of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was
      farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given
      sum paid down.

   Farmers' satin, a light material of cotton and worsted,
      used for coat linings. --McElrath.

   The king's farmer (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection
      of a royal revenue was farmed out. --Burrill.
      [1913 Webster]

FARMER. One who is lessee of a farm. it is said that every lessee for life 
or years, although it be but of a small house and land, is called farmer. 
This word implies no mystery except it be that of husbandman. Cunn. Dict.
h.t. In common parlance, a farmer is one who cultivates a farm, whether he be

the owner of it or not. 

Farmer, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
   Population (2000):    18
   Housing Units (2000): 10
   Land area (2000):     0.063721 sq. miles (0.165037 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.063721 sq. miles (0.165037 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            21060
   Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
   Location:             43.724747 N, 97.688492 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     57311
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Farmer, SD
    Farmer