Careful Words

farm (n.)

farm (v.)

  Each man reaps on his own farm.

Plautus (254(?)-184 b c): Mostellaria. Act iii. Sc. 2, 112. (799.)

  Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

Hesiod (Circa 720 (?) b c): Works and Days. Line 304.

From his brimstone bed, at break of day,

A-walking the Devil is gone,

To look at his little snug farm of the World,

And see how his stock went on.

Robert Southey (1774-1843): The Devil's Walk. Stanza 1.