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stump farm

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noun

  1. a farm that was started on previously forested land covered with the stumps of felled trees.

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The house was still only half completed when he decided to sell the car repair shop and move his family out to the stump farm.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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