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Home-farm   /hoʊm-fɑrm/   Listen
Home-farm

noun
1.
A farm that supplies the needs of a large estate of establishment.





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"Home-farm" Quotes from Famous Books



... household blessing she was. By-and-by, at the end of her fourth year, she took over the gardens as well as the house, was accepted by Mr. Menzies as his liege-lady and by young Clyde as much more than that. The estate- management, home-farm, woods, tenancies, were given up to her at the end of the fifth year, just before Ingram sailed for West Africa on a shooting expedition. By that time he had grown to depend upon her entirely for everything. She was become the faithful well-tried wife of standing, which in a ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett
... the forest had been cleared and was being cleared still, and cheap little houses run up for workmen; an immense and evil-smelling factory with a tall chimney had replaced the old home-farm, and was connected by a single line of rails with the station of La Tremblaye. The clear, pellucid stream where we used to catch crayfish had been canalized—"s'est encanaille," as Barty called it—its waters fouled by barge traffic and all kinds ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier


Words linked to "Home-farm" :   United Kingdom, farm, U.K., Britain, UK, Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland


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