An archaic or dialectal spelling of 'farm,' a piece of land used for growing crops or raising animals.
Variant spelling of 'farm' from Middle English 'ferme,' which came from Old French 'ferme' meaning 'fixed payment,' later applied to the land itself where that payment derived from agricultural production.
Medieval scribes spelled words inconsistently because spelling standardization didn't exist until printing presses made consistency profitable—'fairm' is a fossil reminder that 'farm' was once one spelling option among many.
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