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▪ I. grange, n.|greɪndʒ|
Forms: 4–7 graunge, (4–5 gronge, 5 grawnge, 6 grandge, graynge, granege), 4– grange.
[a. AF. graunge (F. grange):—med.L. grānea, grānica f. grān-um grain n.1]
1. A repository for grain; a granary, barn. arch.
a1300Cursor M. 4689 Garners and Granges fild [he] wit sede. c1384Chaucer H. Fame ii. 190 And eke of loves mo eschaunges Than ever cornes were in graunges. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. iv. ix. 253 A man..brought to losse and domage by fortune of fyre in his hous or in his grange. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xviii. 25 All these cariagis were sette in voyde granges and barnes. 1634Milton Comus 175 When, for their teeming flocks and granges full, In wanton dance they [unlettered hinds] praise the bounteous Pan. 1853Turner Dom. Archit. II. 119 The grange was equivalent to our modern barn, where the corn is placed before it is thrashed. 1853M. Arnold Scholar-Gipsy xiii, And thou hast climb'd the hill..Then sought thy straw in some sequester'd grange. 1873Hale In His Name i. 3 Beyond, she could see large farms with their granges.
2. An establishment where farming is carried on; † also, rarely, a group of such places, a village (obs.). Now applied to: A country house with farm buildings attached, usually the residence of a gentleman-farmer.
c1300Havelok 764 Forbar he neythe[r] tun, ne gronge, Þat he ne to-yede with his ware. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 71 The Samaritan..ladde hym so forth on lyard to lex-christi, a graunge. a1529Skelton Col. Cloute 421 Of an abbaye ye make a graunge. 1530Palsgr. 227/1 Graunge or a lytell thorpe, hameau. Graunge, petit uillage. c1550Bale K. Johan (Camd. Soc.) 23 Our changes are soch that an Abbeye turneth to a graunge. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 38/1 Polycarpus..hid himselfe in a grange or village not farr off from the citie. 1606Holland Sueton. 193 It received moreover graunges [L. rura] with cornefields, vine yards, pastures and woodes. 1622Fletcher Prophetess v. iii, Make this little grange seem a large empire. 1623Cockeram, Graunge, a lone house in the Countrey, a Village. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 159 Grange,..a Building which hath Barns, Stables, Stalls, and other necessary Places for Husbandry. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. II. xxx. 503 A Messe and a Grange called Badley Grange, of the Value of 42 Shillings in Cheshire. 1849W. Irving Crayon Misc. 300 One of these renovated establishments, that had but lately been a mere ruin, and was now a substantial grange. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xci, The thousand waves of wheat, That ripple round the lonely grange. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. xvii. 508 They were scattered in lonely granges.
b. esp. Hist. An outlying farm-house with barns, etc. belonging to a religious establishment or a feudal lord, where crops and tithes in kind were stored.
c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 482 He is wont for tymber for to go, And dwellen at the grange a day or two. c1440Gesta Rom. xlviii. 368 (Add. MS.) All here studie is granges, shepe, nete, and rentes. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 97 Great lordes have cottages or graunges towards the South, from whence their tenants bring them millet. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 88 Of this sort were their Granges and Priories. 1816Scott Antiq. iii, A grange, or solitary farm-house, inhabited by the bailiff, or steward, of the monastery. 1868Yonge Cameos (1877) I. viii. 52 He..harassed a few brethren of the Abbey of Croyland, who inhabited a grange not far from Spalding. 1874Green Short Hist. iii. §6. 145 [They] turned aside to a grange of the monks of Abingdon.
†3. A country house. Obs.
1552Huloet, Graunge, or manour place without the walls of a citie, suburbanum. 1587Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 98 His wife abode A three myles off the towne, where he had buylte a graunge. 1592Daniel Compl. Rosamond Poems (1717) 47 Soon was I train'd from Court, T' a solitary Grange. 1611Cotgr., Beauregard, a Summer house, or Graunge; a house for pleasure, and recreation. 1614Raleigh Hist. World II. v. iii. §16. 454 Eight yeeres..had hee been absent out of the Citie, and liued in his Countrie Grange. 1630Donne Serm. xxxix. 391 The Grange or country house of the same Landlord. 1633Heywood Eng. Trav. iii. Wks. 1874 IV. 43 Who can blame him to absent himselfe from home, And make his Fathers house but as a grange, For a Beautie so Attractiue.
†4. fig. in various senses. Obs.
1557Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 179 [Thou] The heape of mishap of all my griefe the graunge. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 265 Though England be no graunge, but yeeldeth euery thing. 1581T. Howell Deuises (1879) 201 Where al delights condemde are shut, in sharp repentance grange. 1596Spenser F.Q. vii. vii. 21 Ne have the watry foules a certaine grange Wherein to rest. 1632Lithgow Trav. ix. 385 It [Sicily] was also aunciently called the Grange of the Romanes.
5. U.S. A lodge or local branch of the order of ‘Patrons of Husbandry’, an association for the promotion of the interests of agriculture.
1875C. F. Adams in N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 405 The great convention of the Granges held at Springfield, Ill. 1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. (U.S.) VII. 9 Grange,..used in the U.S. since 1867, as the familiar name of the state and subordinate organizations of the ‘patrons of husbandry’, a national association of agriculturists.
6. attrib. and Comb., as grange account, grange farm, † grange horse, † grange house, grange keeper, † grange place; grange apple, a particular variety of apple; † grange-gotten a., ? born in a grange, descended from farmers.
1892Kirk Abingdon Acc. p. xxxi, This account is followed by a *grange account of Mercham.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 48 A new variety has been produced between this and the *Grange apple.
1878Maclear Celts vii. (1879) 118 All flocked forth from their little *grange farms near the monastery.
1586Warner Alb. Eng. v. xxv. (1589) 112 *Grange-gotten Pierce of Gauelstone, and Spensers two like sort, Meane Gentlemen.
1667Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of N. (1886) 152 *Grange horses, hackney horses, manage-horses..and others.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 85 It is long since wee met, and our house is a *Grange house with you. 1590Tarlton's News Purgat. 48, I would haue thee staye at our little graunge house in the Countrey. 1701*Grange-keeper [see granger 1].
c1340Cursor M. 5044 (Fairf.) Þai..þe stiwarde fande atte a *grange place [Cott. garner] soiournande. 1590Greene Roy. Exch. Wks. (Grosart) VII. 242 Sequestrating himself in a graunge place.
▪ II. † grange, v. Obs. rare—1.
[? f. prec.]
trans. Perh. a fig. use of a vb. meaning ‘to engross (corn)’.
c1595in Birch Mem. Q. Eliz. (1754) I. 355 This ruffianry of causes I am daily more and more acquainted with, and see the manner of dealing, which groweth by the queen's straitness to give these women, whereby they presume thus to grange and huck causes. |