Definition of "small farmer" []

• A farmer on a small farm (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In his earlier days he had been successful both as a small farmer and as a dealer in cordwood and hoop-poles; and many of his ventures in this line had sailed out of the tortuous rivers of South Jersey to Philadelphia, where the wood and the poles then found ready sale."
• "Latifundia were the chief reason why Italia was not able to feed itself wheat, as they deprived the small farmer of his land."
• "Poet, son of a small farmer at Soutra, Midlothian, was destined for the ministry of a small Dissenting sect to which his father belonged, but attached himself to the Church of Scotland, and became minister of South Leith in 1773."