farm

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. ranch, rancho, plantation, farmstead, grange. See abode.—v. cultivate, till. See agriculture.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. plantation, ranch, homestead, field, grange, pasture, meadow, grassland, truck farm, estate, farmstead, enclosure, land, claim, holding, improved farm, acres, freehold, leasehold, cropland, soil, acreage, garden, patch, vegetable garden, orchard, nursery, vineyard, demesne, hacienda, kibbutz, collective farm, experiment station, estancia (Spanish American), croft ( British ), spread*.

v.

Syn. cultivate land, engage in agronomy, raise crops, cultivate, till, garden, work, plow, hoe, plant, sow, operate, superintend, look after, lease, run, ranch, crop, graze, homestead, run cattle, run sheep; raise cattle, raise pigs, raise chickens, etc.; husband, produce, grow, enclose, pasture, break the soil, till the soil, take up a claim, sharecrop, dress the ground, hop clods*; see also farming .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

I

n.

farmstead, plantation, ranch, grange, barnyard, homestead, pasture, vineyard, orchard, acreage, tillage, croft, hacienda, patch, garden. ''An irregular patch of nettles, bound by short term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.''—S.J. Perelman.

WORD FIND

• animal-raising: pastoral farming

• animal used for pulling: draft animal

• barren, as a field left unplanted: fallow

• changing crop type grown in field periodically: crop rotation

• channel cut into soil: furrow

• chicken house: coop

• corn storage structure: corncrib

• cover crop and fodder: alfalfa

• cow barn: byre

• crops sold for money, not used as feed: cash crops

• crop such as grass planted to prevent soil erosion: cover crop

• cutting edge of moldboard plow: plowshare

• cylindrical storage building for fodder: silo

• descriptive: rolling patchwork; regiment of corn; pastoral quilting; stubble fields of Autumn; Irish green fields; weathered, swayback barn; plodding draft animals; rooting pigs; hens scratching in the dirt

• farming: husbandry

• farming to feed family only with crops: subsistence farming

• feed for livestock: fodder

• fertilizer: manure, compost, fish meal, bone meal

• fodder that has been stored: silage

• grain storage building: granary

• grazing land for animals: pasture harvesting machine that cuts, threshes,

• cleans, bags grain: combine

• hay cutter: mower, sickle, scythe

• hayfork: pitchfork

• hay grass, most common in United States: timothy

• hay pile (long) left to dry in field: windrow

• hay pile shaped like cone: haycock

• horse enclosure: corral

• implement having spikes or disks for breaking clods, refining soil: harrow

• implement having teeth, pulled by tractor to gather loose hay: rake

• implement that breaks up soil, uproots weeds: cultivator

• irrigation, farming without: dry farming

• laborer: farm hand, migrant worker, bracero

• natural farming without man-made pesticides, fertilizers: organic farming

• pesticide spraying, especially by air: crop dusting

• plant, scatter seeds: sow

• rig that compresses and ties hay into blocks: baler

• rig that separates seeds, grains from straw: thresher

• rig that spreads manure, lime, other material: spreader

• rotary blades for breaking up soil: tiller

• separated husks of grain: chaff

• separate seeds, grains from straw: thresh

• shelf plowed into hill to prevent water runoff: terrace

• silo that is horizontal: bunker silo

• sowing grass to be used as pasture: ley farming

• spread seeds: broadcast

• stumps of crops left after harvest: stubble

• subsistence farm, small: croft

• tenant farmer who works for a share of the crop: sharecropper

• unplowed strip of land at end of furrows: headland

• wedge-shaped plow of yesterday: moldboard plow

see barn, ranch

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v.

cultivate, grow, sow, plow, till, raise crops, plant, practice husbandry, work the soil, *scratch out a meager existence, garden, homestead, ranch.