farmlet

English

Etymology

From farm +‎ -let.[1]

Noun

farmlet (plural farmlets)

  1. A small farm.
    Synonym: farmling (rare)
    • 1979, J. R. Crush, “Nitrogen fixation in pasture”, in New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 7, number 4, page 35:
      In April 1974, one farmlet was stocked with 12.5 Corriedale ewes/ha and run as a conventional dryland farmlet under rotational grazing for fat lamb production.

References

  1. ^ “farmlet, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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