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noun

Rancho n. (pl. ranchos)

A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.

A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation. (Mexico & California)

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Etymology of 'Rancho'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rancho" Quotes from Famous Books

... state, and worn out with fatigue, they came toward evening to a miserable RANCHO, which could only have been called a shelter by people not very fastidious, and certainly only travelers in extremity would even have entered it; but Glenarvan and his companions had no choice, and were glad enough to burrow in this wretched hovel, though it would ...

— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne

... on each of fifty-seven fence posts at the rancho El Tejon, on a mirage-breeding September morning, sat solemnly while the white tilted travelers' vans lumbered down the Canada de los Uvas. After three hours they had only clapped their wings, or exchanged posts. ...

— The Land of Little Rain • Mary Austin

... Sunset Pass Forlorn River To the Last Man Majesty's Rancho Riders of the Purple Sage The Vanishing American Nevada Wilderness Trek Code of the West The Thundering Herd Fighting Caravans 30,000 on the Hoof The Hash Knife Outfit Thunder Mountain The Heritage of the Desert Under the Tonto Rim Knights of the Range Western Union The Lost Wagon ...

— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey