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"farmer" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often granger (7 letters).
Definitions
a person who operates a farm
Word origin
From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma; equivalent to farm + -er. Compare Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”). More at farm.
Used in a sentence
“a farmer of the revenues”
“It all started when Nick Farmer bought George R. R. Martin a drink, but the plot really thickened when the linguist met Martin’s then-assistant Ty Franck.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues
01“Crop grower”6 letters
02“One growing crops”6 letters
03“Person working the land”6 letters
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