noun. One who works on or operates a farm.

noun. One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits.

noun. A simple, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.

noun. One who undertakes the collection of taxes, customs, excise, or other duties for a certain rate per cent., or pays a fixed sum for the privilege of collecting and retaining them: as, a farmer of the revenues.

noun. In mining, the lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

noun. One who cultivates a farm, either as owner or lessee; in general, one who tills the soil.

noun. The eldest son of the holder or occupier of a farm; anciently, a yeoman or country gentleman.

noun. One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.

noun. One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.

noun. One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege.

noun. The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

noun. one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down.

noun. a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings.

noun. one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out.

noun. A person who works the land or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.

noun. Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms.

noun. an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)

noun. United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

noun. a person who operates a farm

"The - er of farmer does not quite say “one who (farms) ” it merely indicates that the sort of person we call a “farmer” is closely enough associated with activity on a farm to be conventionally thought of as always so occupied."