ranch has definitions from the fields of work,agriculture
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[ noun ] (work,agriculture) farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)

Used in print

(Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)

On February 17 , Russell and Cook were sent to the Pena_Flor community on the Vermejo to see about renting_out ranches the company had purchased .

They stayed with a rancher Friday night and by eleven o'clock Saturday morning passed the old Garnett_Lee ranch .

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer_'s_Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A._J._Armstrong , occupied by a Mexican , his wife , and an old trapper .

(Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)

He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning , and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith_Pierce had made it seem .

Related terms

farm

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[ verb ] (work,agriculture) manage or run a ranch

Examples

"Her husband is ranching in Arizona"

Related terms

farm rancher

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