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)

(British) A person who owns or runs a smallholding.

(American) A small slaveholder, a person who owns a smallholding.

"…planters and smallholder's alike controlled far more than their equitable share of the political power and economic resources in their communities. Because '''small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders." (Wilma P. Dunaway, ''Slavery in the American Mountain South : "Introduction" 9, 2003)