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In internet slang, rage-baiting (also rage-farming) is the manipulative tactic of eliciting outrage with the goal of increasing internet traffic, online engagement, revenue and support. [1] [2] Rage baiting or farming can be used as a tool to increase engagement, attract subscribers, followers, and supporters, which can be financially lucrative ...
(pl.) aboiteaux A sluice or conduit built beneath a coastal dike, with a hinged gate or a one-way valve that closes during high tide, preventing salt water from flowing into the sluice and flooding the land behind the dike, but remains open during low tide, allowing fresh water precipitation and irrigation runoff to drain from the land into the sea; or a method of land reclamation which relies ...
In North America, draft cattle under four years old are often called working steers. Improper or late castration on a bull results in it becoming a coarse steer known as a stag in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. [9] In some countries, an incompletely castrated male is known also as a rig.
A poultry farmer is one who concentrates on raising chickens, turkeys, ducks or geese, for either meat, egg or feather production, or commonly, all three. A person who raises a variety of vegetables for market may be called a truck farmer or market gardener. Dirt farmer is an American colloquial term for a practical farmer, or one who farms his ...
Farm Families and Change in 20th-Century America (U of Kentucky Press, 2021) Fry, C. Luther. American Villagers (1926) online, heavily statistical. Fry, John J. " 'Good Farming–Clear Thinking-Right Living': Midwestern Farm Newspapers, Social Reform, and Rural Readers in the Early Twentieth Century," Agricultural History (2004) 78#1 pp.34–49 ...
Tenant farmer on his front porch, south of Muskogee, Oklahoma (1939). A tenant farmer is a person (farmer or farmworker) who resides on land owned by a landlord.Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management, while tenant farmers contribute their labor along with at times varying amounts of ...
[3] [8] [7] Farm laborers in Holland were paid "as much buttermilk (Botermelk) as they could drink, and a tenth (tanther) of the grain". [8] [7] The term Doodle first appeared in English in the early 17th century [9] and is thought to be derived from the Low German dudel, meaning "playing music badly", or Dödel, meaning "fool" or "simpleton".
In countries like the United States where there is a declining population of American citizens working on farms — temporary or itinerant skilled labor from outside the country is recruited for labor-intensive crops like vegetables and fruits. Sudanese farmer reviews cantaloupe production, south of Khartoum. A Rwandan farmworker