a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -LY1.] Like a farmer.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., IX. (1703), II. 513. Some Farmerly Men … which had good reputations of affection … to the King’s Service.
1727. in Bailey, vol. II.
1793. W. Jones (of Nayland), Let. John Bull, Esq., 2. Thomas Bull is a plain farmerly man, given up to the business of his calling.
