Definition of Home-farm

1. Noun. A farm that supplies the needs of a large estate of establishment.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Home-farm

homatropine
homaxial
homaxonial
hombre
hombres
homburg
homburgs
home
home(a)
home-
home-along
home-baked
home-brewed
home-builder
home-cured
home-farm (current term)
home-fried potatoes
home-grown
home-loving
home-made
home-making
home-school
home-sickness
home-sicknesses
home-speaking
home-style
home and dry
home and hosed
home appliance
home away from home

Literary usage of Home-farm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collections by CT Historical Society (1903)
"A part of the Thaxter grant afterwards became the home farm of Gen. John Stark, and was by him divided among his descendants, and the purpose of this paper ..."

2. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1905)
"Accordingly it was garrisoned by negro troops and under government supervision cultivated as the Freedmen's Home Farm for Mississippi. ..."

3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"The question whether any given farm is a ' home farm ... I think it difficult to hold a farm to be a ' home farm ' which has nothing to distinguish it from ..."

4. Vocational Agricultural Education by Home Projects by Rufus Whittaker Stimson (1919)
"The big project bulks larger on the home farm than does the small one. It means that the cooperation of the father, or the employer, has been cordially ..."

5. Vocational Agricultural Education by Home Projects by Rufus Whittaker Stimson (1919)
"(D) School and home farm. — The school farm with its illustrative and trial ... (D) Home farm and department. — The department has no extensive farming ..."

6. A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in by E. Polk Johnson, Lewis Publishing Company (1912)
"Compassed by the beneficent influences an duties of the home farm, James X. Kirk w; reared to years of maturity, and he waxe strong in mind and body under ..."

7. History of the Western Reserve by Harry Gardner Cutler, Harriet Taylor Upton (1910)
"poon, of Warren, Illinois ; Vashti, widow of the late John Garrett, lived, with her children, on the home farm after the death of her husband and is now in ..."

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