stock farm
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of stock farm
First recorded in 1800–10
Example Sentences
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The wickets of Duckett and Crawley necessitated a change of approach and Jacks was able to take stock, farm the strike, and ensure there was not a mad scramble in the dressing room.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023
On his stock farm in the rolling country of Shropshire in western England, Farmer Richard Ellis noticed one day that two of his pigs were limping.
From Time Magazine Archive
Warren T. McCray, ten years ago, was accustomed to spend many a morning inspecting his large stock farm of stubby-necked Herefordshire cattle.
From Time Magazine Archive
He puttered around the International Typographical Union's stock farm, chumming up to Holstein-Friesian cattle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your line follers the road on this side, and on the other side of the road is Eben Brewster’s stock farm of a thousand acres–mostly bush-parsture an’ rocks, up this a-way.”
From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Amy Bell Marlowe
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