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Brewer's: Farm

means food; so called because anciently the tenant was required to provide the landlord with food by way of rent. (Anglo-Saxon, fearme, food.)

To farm taxes
is the French affermer (to let or lease), from ferme, a letting for the supply of food.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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