Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
stock-farmer .
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Examples
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Mackay was entertained by Macechan, who was a respectable store-farmer, from his earliest life to his marriage.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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At length, when our pedestrian began to supply the wants of little Wasp, the Scotch store-farmer, for such was Mr. Dinmont, found himself at leisure to enter into conversation.
Chapter XXII 1917
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Weel, the better for them that bides in tanswered the store-farmer.
Chapter XLV 1917
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ELSPETH (_Auld_), the old servant of Dandie Dinmont, the store-farmer of Charlie's Hope.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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What, it may be asked, could not be done by every store-farmer following the example of M. Graux?
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 Various 1841
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At length, when our pedestrian began to supply the wants of little Wasp, the Scotch store-farmer, for such was Mr. Dinmont, found himself at leisure to enter into conversation.
Guy Mannering 1815
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Wasp, the Scotch store-farmer, for such was Mr. Dinmont, found himself at leisure to enter into conversation.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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At length, when our pedestrian began to supply the wants of little Wasp, the Scotch store-farmer, for such was Mr. Dinmont, found himself at leisure to enter into conversation.
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'Weel, the better for them that bides in't,' answered the store-farmer.
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Wasp, the Scotch store-farmer, for such was Mr. Dinmont, found himself at leisure to enter into conversation.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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