6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Farming \Farm"ing\, n.
The business of cultivating land.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Farm \Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Farmed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Farming}.]
1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to
yield the use of to proceeds.
We are enforced to farm our royal realm. --Shak.
2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the
revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a
percentage of what it yields; as to farm the taxes.
To farm their subjects and their duties toward
these --Burke.
3. To take at a certain rent or rate.
4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to
till, as a farm.
{To farm let}, {To let to farm}, to lease on rent.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Farming \Farm"ing\, a.
Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to adapted to or engaged
in farming; as farming tools; farming land; a farming
community.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
farming
adj : "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming
communities" [syn: {agrarian}, {agricultural}, {farming(a)}]
n 1: the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock [syn:
{agriculture}, {husbandry}]
2: working the land as an occupation or way of life; "farming
is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any
more" [syn: {land}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
farming n. [Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads of
a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic
media. Associated with a {crash}. Typically used as follows: "Oh no
the machine has just crashed; I hope the hard drive hasn't gone {farming}
again." No longer common; modern drives automatically park their heads
in a safe zone on power-down, so it takes a real mechanical problem to
induce this
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
farming
[Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads of a disk
drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the
magnetic media. Associated with a {head crash}. Typically
used as follows: "Oh no the machine has just crashed; I hope
the hard drive hasn't gone {farming} again."
[{Jargon File}]
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