Noun

(en noun)

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

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Agent noun]] of farm; someone or something that [[farm#verb, farms.

(historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.

a farmer of the revenues

(historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

Noun

(en noun)

A person who breeds plants or animals professionally.

(gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.

Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock.

A type of nuclear reactor that creates material suitable for the production of atomic weapons. (See Wikipedia's article on s.)

(slang, derogatory) a person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.

* 1729 :

The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders'; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand ' breeders .

(cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.