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nounhome farm (plural home farms)
plural home farms · alternative homefarm
- UKPart of a country estate that is farmed by the landowner or an employed farm manager, while most of the estate is rented out to tenant farmers.
The produce of the home farm was mostly consumed in his own household. The rents, which he received from his tenants, did not exceed £100 per annum[.]
1854, “The Old English Hall”, in The Illustrated Magazine of Art, volume 4, number 22, page 247Synonyms: mains
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nounPart of a country estate that is farmed by the landowner or an employed farm manager, while most of the estate is rented out to tenant farmers.
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