Definition of "farm"

The skies are threatening to pour on the Apple solar farm but as the woman in-charge of the company’s environmental initiatives points out: the panels are still putting out some power. Apple is still greening its act.

2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian‎

If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill.

1642, J. Perkins, transl., Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329

All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm, without any Increase.

1700, J. Tyrrell, Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814

The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease.

1767, W. Blackstone, Comm. Laws Eng. II. 320

He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.

1876, E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439

The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.

1885, Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580

They despair of a suppression of the Farm.

1786, T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568

It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants.

a1599, Spenser, View State Ireland in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) 58

Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals.

1647, N. Bacon, Hist. Disc. Govt. 75

The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.

1818, W. Cruise, Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68

Oliver’s sobs checked his utterance for some minutes; when he was on the point of beginning to relate how he had been brought up at the farm, and carried to the workhouse by Mr. Bumble, a peculiarly impatient little double-knock was heard at the street-door: and the servant, running upstairs, announced Mr. Grimwig.

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […]

to farm their subjects and their duties toward these

December 1, 1783, Edmund Burke, Speech on Mr. Fox's East-India Bill

We are enforced to farm our royal realm.

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iv]

In Paris it is stated that nearly half the birth-rate of the city finds its way to nurses who farm babies in the suburbs.

1886, The Fortnightly, volume 46, page 530

When you hit a black pudding with an iron weapon that does at least one point of damage there is a good chance it will divide into two black puddings of the same size (but half the hit points IIRC). […] When eaten black puddings confer several intrinsics so AC [armor class] is not the only potential benefit. […] Since black puddings are formidible[sic] monsters for an inexperienced character, farming is also a good way to die.

2004, Doug Freyburger, “Pudding Farming Requires Care”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)

The practice of gold farming is controversial within gaming communities and violates the end user licensing agreements […]

2010, Robert Alan Brookey, Hollywood Gamers, page 130