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Ranch   /ræntʃ/   Listen
Ranch

noun
1.
Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).  Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, spread.
verb
(Written also raunch)
1.
Manage or run a ranch.



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"Ranch" Quotes from Famous Books



... Grizek had absentee employers who weren't interested in their foreman's methods, just as long as he recruited his own wranglers for the Bar B Ranch. Nobody demanded to see Apt cards or insisted on making out formal work-reports, and the pay was in cash. Cowhands were hard to come by these days, and it was an unspoken premise that the men taking on such jobs would be vagrants, migratory workers, ...
— This Crowded Earth • Robert Bloch

... into the shanty, and watched Dave stir together sour milk and soda for bread. The ranch was away in the hills, much too far from any town for visits from the baker's wagon. The treeless hills were the ranging-place of cattle and horses. Far away in the valley Sid could see the river-bed. It was dry now, but Dave said that if one dug down anywhere in the sand, one could ...
— The Children's Portion • Various

... had been acquired principally in the cow camps of Texas, where, among other things one does NOT learn to love nor trust a greaser. As a result of this early training Grayson was peculiarly unfitted in some respects to manage an American ranch in Mexico; but he was a just man, and so if his vaqueros did not love him, they at least respected him, and everyone who was or possessed the latent characteristics of a wrongdoer ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... disappeared did conversation renew itself languidly, for Seven Mile Ranch was lying under the ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine

... twenty-five, I settled in a part of Texas where there were no cats. It was on a ranch in the upper valley of the Colorado. I was cattle ranching, and having had a pretty shrewd knowledge of the business before I left home, I soon made headway, and—between ourselves, mate, for there are mighty 'tough uns' in these town hotels—a ...
— Byways of Ghost-Land • Elliott O'Donnell


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