grangern.
/ˈɡreɪndʒə/ 1. One who is in charge of a grange; a farm-bailiff; also, ? a tenant-farmer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > overseer
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c1112 in J. Barmby Memorials St. Giles's, Durham (1896) 196 (note) Undecimus erit Graunger et Custos Carucarum.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 76 Soom grangers with goade iads restye be pricking.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 225 As if he had slain his Grangier, or Bailif of his husbandry.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 102 His tenants, the graingers, are tyed to come themselves and winde the woll.
1689 W. Walker tr. H. Languet Vindiciæ contra Tyrannos (new ed.) 4 To the end that God might be acknowledged Lord, and they his grangers and vine dressers.
1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) sig. U3b The Granger, or Grange-keeper, an Officer belonging to Religious Houses, who was to look after their Grange.
1877 F. G. Lee Gloss. Liturg. & Eccl. Terms 140 The granger who takes charge of the garners and barns of a religious house.
2. U.S.
a. A member of a ‘grange’ (see grange n. 5).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > political associations or societies > members of
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funder1872
granger1875
Tammanyite1882
Bundist1907
America Firster1927
Bircher1961
Birchite1961
John Bircher1961
1875 C. F. Adams in N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 395 The time has now come when the Granger can be looked upon as a phenomenon of the past.
1896 Daily News 3 Nov. 2/4 The leading Grangers were afraid to go into politics.
b. A farmer (see quot. 1887).
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1887 I. Randall Lady's Ranche Life Montana 121 They call the farmers here ‘grangers’, as distinct from ranch-men or stock-men... The granger is held in low estimation by the stock-man.
1889 Cent. Dict. Granger, a farmer, a countryman (Humorous. U.S.).
c. plural. Short for granger shares n. at Compounds 2.
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1885 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 449/1 One has but to mention the word ‘railway’, and there arises to the mind a congeries of difficult questions dealing with Western ‘grangers’.
1897 Daily News 17 June 3/1 Other stocks reacted, Grangers leading the railways.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. (Sense 2).
granger law n.
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1887 Contemp. Rev. May 700 The rash ‘granger’ laws of more than a decade ago firmly established the principle.
granger movement n.
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1875 C. F. Adams in N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 395 That Granger movement, which..has played a most prominent part in the politics of certain of the North-western States.
granger party n.
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1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlvi. 202 The farmers associated themselves in societies called ‘Granges’..for the promotion of agriculture, and created a Granger party, which secured drastic legislation against the railroad companies.
C2.
granger road n. U.S. one of the railways which convey grain from the Western States.
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1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Aug. 7/1 The granger roads gained 16 per cent. in net.
granger shares n. U.S. shares in the granger roads.
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1881 Chicago Times 12 Mar. High-priced granger shares.
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