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Free-range   /fri-reɪndʒ/   Listen
Free-range

adjective
1.
Of livestock and domestic poultry; permitted to graze or forage rather than being confined to a feedlot.





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"Free-range" Quotes from Famous Books



... seemed a little disappointed, but she smoothed the dress over her sharp knees, and continued: "Right there the good old days ended for yore ma—and for us. The cattle business has been steadily on the chute—that is, the free-range business. I saw it comin', an' I says to Jackson, 'Camp on some river-bottom and chuck in the alfalfy,' I says. An' that's what we did. We got a little bunch o' cattle up in the park—Uncle Sam's man is lookin' after 'em." ...
— Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger - A Romance of the Mountain West • Hamlin Garland
... gold-fields of California and Idaho, an outcast from that evil wave of wanderers retreating back over the trails so madly traveled westward. He became a lord over the free ranges. But more than all else he was a rider. He knew a horse. He was as much horse as Bostil. Cordts rode into this wild free-range country, where he had been heard to say that a horse-thief was meaner than a poisoned coyote. Nevertheless, he became a horse-thief. The passion he had conceived for the Sage King was the passion of a man for an unattainable woman. Cordts swore that he would ...
— Wildfire • Zane Grey


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