fee-farmer Law.
(ˈfiːfɑːmə(r))
Also Sc. feu-farmer.
[a. AF. feefermer, OF. feufermier, med.L. feudifirmārius, f. feudifirma: see fee-farm.]
One who holds a fee-farm.
| 1468 in Rolle Abridgment (1668) 150 Les Fee-farmers del Roy. 1511–2 Act 3 Hen. VIII, c. 23 Preamb., Fermours, Feefermours, Officers and Occupiers. 1591 in Hearne R. Brunne (1810) 418 Her majesties fee-farmer. |
| fig. 1609 J. Davies Holy Roode cxxvii, As when bright Phebus..And his Fee-farmer Luna, most are parted. |