See farmling in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "“What? Why would you need a tractor?” / Melrose drew a fence around his farm animals. “It’s for the farm. Or farmling, perhaps. I don’t want to overextend myself. We’ll need the tractor to turn over the loam. Loam.”",
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