stump farm

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an undeloped bush ranch, having the trees logged off and, often, having grass sown between the stumps for grazing cattle.

Quotations

1936

. . . I guess he had been trying to make a living so long on a stump farm that he was bitter and disillusioned.