A historical term for a keeper or manager of a fermer, or a person in charge of farm or estate management in medieval times.
From Old French ferme (farm, lease), related to firma (fixed payment), ultimately from Latin firmus (firm, fixed). The -er suffix indicates a person who does this work.
Medieval fermerers were essentially estate managers who collected rents and organized agricultural production—the term appears in Chaucer and other Middle English literature but gradually disappeared as land management became more specialized.
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