ferm

noun — 3 senses

ferm

noun

/fɜː(ɹ)m/

Etymology See farm.

1

Obsolete rent for a farm

  • He let his land to ferm.
2

Obsolete a farm

3

Obsolete an abode or place of residence

  • Out of her fleshly ferme fled to the place of paine..1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.