Misfarm
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Misfarm is a verb meaning To do a poor job of farming.
Meaning
To do a poor job of farming.
Example Sentences
The stretch of land that Father inherited from his father was misfarmed by every generation for over seventy-five years and was gray, unwilling soil.
The poet seems to inwardly adopt as his ancestors all the generations of farmers — good and bad, but mostly bad — who for two hundred years have farmed and misfarmed this region along the Kentucky River.
Schlesinger contrasts Morgan's approach unfavorably with the more incentive-based approaches of his RVA codirectors David Lilienthal and H.A. Morgan, neither of whom shared Arthur Morgan's or Roosevelt's passion for using the TVA as a means of social mastery: Where Arthur Morgan would pass a law depriving a farmer of land he has misfarmed, Lilienthal and H. A. Morgan would offer him inducements to use his land more wisely.
Word Forms
- misfarms
- misfarming
- misfarmed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include miscrop, misplant, misproduce, mislabour, misfertilize, mispitch.
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