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ribbon farm 
a long, narrow holding of land fronting on a river, such as the farms of old Quebec along the St. Lawrence River and those in the Red River Settlement.
See also: river lot (def. 2) strip farm
- 1962 The Kildonan settlers were given ribbon farms on the west bank of the Red River, north of the earlier arrivals. Each farm had a narrow frontage on the river and ran back two miles, with a two-mile-wide strip of pasture and hay land behind for the use of all.
- 1962 The Kildonan settlers were given ribbon farms on the west bank of the Red River, north of the earlier arrivals. Each farm had a narrow frontage on the river and ran back two miles, with a two-mile-wide strip of pasture and hay land behind for the use of all.