Brook Farm

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noun

a farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, where an experimental cooperative community was established from 1841 to 1847.

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Words nearby Brook Farm

brood parasitism, brood pouch, broody, brook, Brooke, Brook Farm, Brookfield, Brookhaven, brookie, Brookings, brookite

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How to use Brook Farm in a sentence

They were just way too aggressive to try and maintain on a farm here,” says Gow of his “Nazi cows.
‘Nazi Cows’ Tried to Kill British Farmer|Tom Sykes|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But they are serious: what large-scale fracking does is change small farm towns into industrial sites.
New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban|Jay Michaelson|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When Reid came on board, he had only leased part of the land to farm on; the deal did not include the house.
Ester Elchies, The Estate Built By Whiskey||December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A land farm is the term used for a commercial operation where waste from oil and gas extraction is spread on top of the ground.
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons This novel won the literary Prix Femina Étranger.
These Female Contemporaries Weren’t Afraid of Virginia Woolf|Louisa Treger|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Van Twiller was himself a grower of the plant and had his tobacco farm at Greenwich.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
Could this man, who had been sent out to take care of Indians, get back his San Pasquale farm for him?
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
We did plan a great trip—father and mother and Tim and I—we were going to England together when the farm showed a surplus.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
He hunted about until he had found some acorns, and then, coming to a little brook of water he took a long drink.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum

British Dictionary definitions for Brook Farm

Brook Farm

noun

an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847

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