Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A farm devoted to stock-breeding.
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Examples
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It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not between animals and men.
The Virtue of Selfishness Rand, Ayn 1961
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Not one stock-farm corral of tennis courts for exhibitionists -- but many private tennis courts.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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One of the sons runs the Parker stock-farm in upper Louisiana, beside the Mississippi.
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Game, and wild things generally, have increased in numbers on this big stock-farm.
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Surely it will ultimately again be recognized in our country that life on a plantation, on a great stock-farm or ranch, is one of the most interesting, and, from the standpoint of both body and soul, one of the most healthy, of all ways of earning a living.
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The interest attaching to a visit to one of these civilized ranches is that which attaches to a visit to a fine modern stock-farm anywhere, whether in Hungary or Kentucky or Victoria.
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We passed one fenced stock-farm with grass and grazing cattle, that looked very home-like after endless corn and cotton.
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Then they went on up the stock-farm yard and along the road to the bridge over San Francisquito.
Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University Will Irwin 1910
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They went up toward the stock-farm, and the boy opened his mother's letter and read eagerly the home news and the affectionate questions.
Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University Will Irwin 1910
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He's got work there, on a stock-farm -- among strangers.
V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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