noun
a farm devoted to breeding livestock.
Origin of
stock farm
First recorded in 1800–10
OTHER WORDS FROM stock farm
stock farmer, noun
stock farming, noun
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stock farm
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Example sentences from the Web for
stock farm
She was standing at the paddock fence of her grandfather's stock-farm in Kentucky.
It is now in the possession of a New Yorker, who keeps it as a shooting-preserve and stock-farm.
Mrs. Harrison has arranged for them to stop for a day at Selimcroft, her Uncle's stock-farm up your way, as they go.
Janet was not going to lose time planning for a stock-farm business and not act, it seemed.
British Dictionary definitions for
stock farm
noun
a farm on which livestock is bred
Derived forms of stock farm
stock farmer, noun
stock farming, noun
