Farming
['fɑːmɪŋ] or ['fɑrmɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; 'farming is a strenuous life'; 'there's no work on the land any more'.
(noun.) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock.
Typed by Adele--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Farm
(a.) Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.
(n.) The business of cultivating land.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Agriculture, husbandry.
Typed by Enid
Examples
- I reckon 'at us manufacturing lads i' th' north is a deal more intelligent, and knaws a deal more nor th' farming folk i' th' south. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Rome in her best days placed farming in high regard. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- My father can't spare me any capital, else I might go into farming. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The ten acres of the reservation offered an excellent opportunity for truck-farming, and the versatile head of the family could not avoid trying his luck in this branch of work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- During years of highly successful farming, during which Hutton introduced new methods in Berwickshire, he was interested in meteorology, and in geology as related to soils. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The garden and orchard alone need two or three men, and farming isn't in Bhaer's line, I take it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- What with sheep-farming, and what with stock-farming, and what with one thing and what with t'other, we are as well to do, as well could be. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In the fall of 1858 I sold out my stock, crops and farming utensils at auction, and gave up farming. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Far-reaching mechanical inventions already threaten to transform farming into an industry. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They introduced into the west many trees and plants from the east, and wrote scientific treatises on farming. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Usually less seed should be planted per acre under dry-farming conditions than is used in humid sections. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The millets are among the best paying dry-farming crops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They practised farming in a scientific way, and had good systems of irrigation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some of the residents are engaged in local business; some are occupied in farming and grape culture; others are employed in the iron-works near-by, at Norwalk. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There was a third young man on the box who wished to be learned in cattle; and an old one behind, who was familiar with farming. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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