farming

plural farmings

1. countableuncountableThe business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc.

   Gardening, then, is a sort of refined farming upon a limited scale.

   1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 1

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   Farming was among the earliest of civilized man's occupations, [...]

   1945 April 18, American Historical Association, United States Armed Forces Institute, Shall I Take Up Farming? (GI Roundtable), number 35, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2

   Synonyms: soil

2. countableuncountableA farming operation; a farm, or instance of farming on a piece of land.

   We discharge them also of all Farmings of Benefices, and Church Lands, or Goods, of which they were spoiled by those who Commanded under their General.

   1692, John Quick, Synodicon in Gallia reformata

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   After Agricultural Foundation Law was enacted in 1961, the expansion of scale of farm business, the improvement of agricultural foundation, the spread of diversified farming with livestock, the mechanization and the rationalization of farming have accelerated viable farmings.

   1986, Science reports of the Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba., page 24

   The problem has been enhanced more so because more agricultural farmings are spreading out leaving but slight margins for cattle farming and fears are expressed by farmers upon the possible cattle intrusion into the farmings ...

   1997, Hamlet Bareh, The History and Culture of the Khasi People, →ISBN, page 433

1. not comparablePertaining to the agricultural business.
2. not comparableworking as a farmer, raising livestock or fish.

   But the story is thus; there was a plain farming Fellow in the Country that lived near the said Brother of the Congregational way,

   1673, Don Francisco Baltheo de Montalvan, translated by W.H., Naked truth, or, A plain discovery of the intrigues of amorous fops and humours of several other whimsical persons: in a pleasant and profitable dialogue between a precious saint-like sister called Terpole and Mimologos, a scoffing buffoon, London, page 39

3. not comparableobsoleterarerenting the duties of one's office for a regular fixed payment

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of farm