He wanted his grandfather to buy him a farm out there where he could breed horses.
As time goes on there should be opportunities to farm out projects to individual growers.
Sense that, the other boys have married, and Submit has lived alone in the old farm-house, lettin' the farm out on shares.
E got some work at a farm out at Pendragon and 'e was just goin' there when I came along and made 'im come to Spain. '
I only wish his volk were on my farm—out they should go, or I would know the reason why.
Grandfather and his boys, four in all, fairly carved a farm out of the big forest that covered the cold rocky hills.
And they had squeezed farm after farm out of the settlers hands for rum, and thus had bountifully enriched themselves.
When I first saw you on your father's farm out in Kansas, you was as wild a little gypsy as I ever set eyes on.
For it is a hard thing to make a farm out of nothing, even in fifteen years.
He had stopped this time in Iowa and had begun once again the tremendous task of making a farm out of the virgin prairie.
c.1300, "fixed payment (usually in exchange for taxes collected, etc.), fixed rent," from Old French ferme "rent, lease," from Medieval Latin firma "fixed payment," from Latin firmare "to fix, settle, confirm, strengthen," from firmus "firm" (see firm (adj.)).
Sense of "tract of leased land" is first recorded early 14c.; that of "cultivated land" (leased or not) is 1520s. Phrase buy the farm "die in battle," is at least from World War II, perhaps a cynical reference to the draftee's dream of getting out of the war and going home, in many cases to a peaceful farmstead. But fetch the farm is prisoner slang from at least 1879 for "get sent to the infirmary," with reference to the better diet and lighter duties there.
mid-15c., "to rent (land)," from Anglo-French fermer, from ferme (see farm (n.)). The agricultural sense is from 1719. Original sense is retained in to farm out.
verb
To be killed in action; die in the armed services; buy the farm: Just about the whole company farmed that day
Related Terms
bet the farm, fat farm, funny farm, nuthouse
[1970s+ Army; fr buy the farm]
noun
A minor-league club used as a training ground by a major-league club: Columbus is a Yankee farm (1898+ Baseball)