[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That farms, in senses of the vb.
1551. Edw. VI., Disc. Ref. Abuses, in Lit. Rem. (Roxb.), II. 482. True gentlemen (I meane not theis ferming gentlemen, nor clarking knightes).
1885. Edwards, in Encycl. Brit. (ed. 9), XIX. 580, ‘Post-Office.’ It [the French revolutionary government] put a board of postmasters in room of a farming postmaster-general and a controlling one.
