† ranchn.1
Obsolete. rare (English regional (East Anglian) in later use).
A deep scratch.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > scratch or graze
scarta1585
scratcha1586
ranch1611
chalk1840
graze1847
gravel-rash1860
rope burn1880
road rash1892
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > [noun] > scratching, scraping, or abrasion > a scratch or mark made by scratching or scraping
scorec1400
gall1545
rasure1596
ranch1611
rit1709
scuff1954
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Griffade, a clawing; a scratch or gripe with the clawes; a ranche, or clinch with a beasts paw.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Ranch, a deep and severe scratch, a flesh wound.
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ranchn.2
/rɑːn(t)ʃ/, /ran(t)ʃ/, U.S. /ræn(t)ʃ/ Originally U.S.
1.
a. U.S. A hut or house in the country; spec. a farmhouse.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > villa or country house > small
box1696
country box1722
villakin1730
cottage orné1774
villarette1792
ranch1807
bower1810
ranch house1859
villino?1863
dacha1896
1807 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) iii. 254 When we arrived at the Ranche, we soon had out a number of boys, who brought in the horse.
1846 B. Upton Let. 28 Aug. in Amer. Heritage (1966) June 93/1 Rancheros are farmers and a farm house is called a ranch.
1867 W. H. Dixon New Amer. (ed. 6) iv. 42 A white frame house—on this side of the river called a ranch—peeps out..from beneath the foliage.
1904 in Kansas Hist. Soc. 9 10 A little wayside trading-house south of the big bend of the Smoky Hill, called a ranch, as all such places on the plains were then called.
1948 C. Wyckoff Mercer Boys on Treasure Hunt 59 Ned pointed to a small white ranch which gleamed brightly in the moonlight.
2005 R. D. Ortiz Blood on Border 31 Since the..property was most often called a ‘ranch’, I was expecting to find a Texas-style spread and was surprised to find instead a weather-beaten one-room shack.
b. North American. A single-storey rectangular house with a low-pitched roof and an open plan; any house in a similar style. See also raised ranch n. at raised adj.1 Compounds. Cf. ranch house n. (b) at Compounds 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style
hall-house1467
longhouse1643
bungalow1676
single housea1684
tower-house1687
villa1755
box1773
cottage orné1774
villarette1792
mews1805
cottage1808
terrace house1817
casita1822
villa dwelling1833
villa residence1833
box-house1846
six-roomer1853
terrace1854
tembe1860
moat house1871
parlour house1871
row house1871
salt-box1876
trullo1898
townhouse1900
colonial1903
semi1912
Cape Cod1916
bungaloid1927
semi-detached1928
ranchette1938
solar house1946
rambler1947
rancher1950
ranch1951
tunnel-back1957
sidesplit1958
two-up-and-two-downer1958
two-up two-down1958
semi-det1960
A-frame1963
townhouse1965
tri-level1965
link house1968
split1970
dormer bungalow1977
1951 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 3 Sept. 4 b/2 3 bedroom ranch.
1960 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Payoff xi. 111 Some real estate agent had decided to give the title ‘ranch’ to any house that had all of its living space on one floor.
1965 ‘L. Egan’ Detective's Due (1966) 10 Big newish expensive homes. The one they wanted turned out to be a split-level ranch with a lot of synthetic stone on its front.
1992 S. Flannery Moving Targets x. 209 She parked under the carport on the west side of the long, two-story ranch.
2.
a. A large farm or estate for breeding cattle, horses, or sheep, esp. in the western United States. cattle-, dude, grass-, guest-, milk, sheep, stock-ranch, etc.: see the first element.Quot. 1831 may belong to sense 1.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > cattle farm
estantion1697
estancia1704
rancho1820
ranchito1829
ranch1831
ganaderia1860
spread1927
1831 J. O. Pattie Personal Narr. Exped. from St. Louis 221 [At] a ranch..I procured a horse for three dollars.
1847 B. Lundy Life x. 58 We set off at day-break, and went twenty-one miles to a ranche.
1870 J. C. Duval Adventures Big-Foot Wallace xl. 247 I shall come back to my ranch here, put on my old buckskins, and run after stock and fight Indians for a livelihood the balance of my life.
1883 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 49 The great sheep ranche which Exmoor has become.
1933 J. D. Higinbotham When West was Young 201 A ranch frequently takes the name of the horse or cattle brand of its owner... Other ranches took the name of a locality.
1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari iv. 72 He went out to East Africa to one of its remote frontier areas and started a ranch of his own.
1972 Buenos Aires Herald 2 Feb. 7/6 He..seduced several women after promising he would marry them later in Venezuela where he said he owned several ranches.
1995 J. P. Wilson Islands in Desert viii. 197 One ranch in upper Hawk Canyon raised as many as 7,000 Angoras in good years.
2006 New Yorker 25 Sept. 22/1 Leave the wrong gate open on the ranch, and a cow could die of bloat.
b. An establishment where animals of some other kind are bred, esp. foxes and mink for their fur; (also) a farm on which crops are grown. Frequently with modifying word indicating the thing farmed or produced.clam-, mink, wheat ranch: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun]
townOE
wick1086
farm1414
gainery1424
farmhold1471
room?a1513
farm place1526
colony1566
labouring1604
podere1605
fund1694
location1813
bowery1842
ranch1865
1865 ‘M. Twain’ in Californian 28 Oct. 5/3 I have a ranch of quite unknown extent, Its turnips great, its oats without compare.
1869 Terr. Enterprise (Virginia, Nev.) 30 Mar. 3/4 A gentleman named Zivits, owning a wood ranch south of Empire.
1890 Stock Grower & Farmer 12 July 5/1 They are pasturing on the Alfalfa ranches.
1900 Sci. Amer. 21 Apr. 242/3 There are..no less than thirty-five [Alaskan] islands occupied by proprietors of fox ranches.
1948 A. L. Rand Mammals E. Rockies 92 In Alberta the number of mink ranches has increased steadily from 35 in 1929 to 773 in 1943.
1950 Sun (Baltimore) 2 Mar. 8/5 A New Zealander has swopped his cow pastures for a ‘whale ranch’.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 4 July 8- d/2 (advt.) Experienced worker..for dryland grain & livestock ranch South of Billings.
2002 T. Goebel Governm. by People ii. 37 He ultimately retired to Donna, Texas, where he started a fruit ranch.
Phrases
meanwhile back at the ranch: originally used in western stories and films, introducing a subsidiary plot; now chiefly humorous and in extended use.
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the world > time > [phrase] > meanwhile
in the interim1579
meanwhile back at the ranch1940
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > phrase used in novels [phrase] > introducing sub-plot in Western
meanwhile back at the ranch1940
1912 Z. Grey Riders of Purple Sage vi. 65 Meantime, at the ranch, when Judkins's news had sent Venters on the trail of the rustlers, Jane Withersteen led the injured man to her house.]
1940 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 21 July Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Sandy's dog, Pat, began to whine.
1956 Life 2 Apr. 17/2 (advt.) Meanwhile, back at the ranch... That caption from the old silent movies prompts us to ask this question: How much of your precious time is tied up ‘back at the ranch’?
1963 J. Crist in N.Y. Herald Tribune Sunday Mag. 24 Nov. 40/2 Kramer keeps any number of old ‘meanwhile, back at the ranch’ side adventures going.
1978 Observer 29 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) front cover (caption) Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
1999 Stage 30 Sept. 9/3 Meanwhile back at the ranch! After a few weeks in London, I returned to discover that the..New York theatre season had slowly been getting into gear.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive and objective.
ranch boarding n.
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1976 Rhyl Jrnl. & Advertiser 9 Dec. 22/3 (advt.) Reclaimed and new timber for sale..Perspex corrugated sheets, Target board, plywoods, ranch boarding, chipboard, melamine etc.
ranch building n.
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1855 A. B. Gray Texas Western Railroad: Surv. 16 The Ranch building itself being 3,800 [feet] above.
1899 T. Roosevelt Rough Riders iii. 98 We fired industriously at the ranch buildings ahead of us.
1984 T. McGuane Something to be Desired i. 7 Lucien's father spotted some ranch buildings in the distance.
ranch company n.
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1884 N.Y. Times 19 Apr. 4 It is true that the Government has recently filed a bill in equity against a ranch company in Nebraska.
1955 Port Arthur (Texas) News 31 Mar. 24/1 The ranch company executed a mineral deed conveying all minerals to R. E. Breeding.
2002 H. C. Klassen Eye on Future vii. 151 A big ranch company often helped provide employees with ranching skills.
ranch country n.
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1881 Colman's Rural World 10 Nov. 349/5 Why should the far away ranch country be more inviting than this?
1949 C. C. Taylor in E. A. Schuler & C. C. Taylor Rural Life U.S. iv. xxiii. 403 Towns and cities in the ranch country are the seats of..a great variety of enterprises.
2005 J. H. Young North Country Cache 352 I'll try to explain it here, in case you are not from ranch country.
ranch dog n.
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1878 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, California) 28 Sept. 7/2 George was followed by Bruno, the ranch dog, of well known prowess and courage.
1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 156 Now you've come sex-alive, and the great ranch dogs are all after you.
2004 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 28 May a2/1 The 3-year-old ranch dog will show off her skills during one day at the El Dorado County Fair.
ranch experience n.
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1883 Colman's Rural World 13 Sept. 4/3 Col. Fenlon looks heavier from his ranch experience than when we first knew him, sixteen years ago, in the grocery business.
2002 B. Knox Growing Up Cowboy 331 Bob got his degree from the University of Wyoming and wanted some practical ranch experience.
ranch girl n.
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1890 Los Angeles Times 26 Apr. 7 (headline) A Box of Monkeys and a Ranch Girl on Fifth Avenue.
1950 C. L. Sonnichsen Cowboys & Cattle Kings ii. vi. 71 In that era a ranch girl usually married a ranchman, unless her father happened to be a cattle king.
2006 B. S. Foster Fire in Bosque 10 He found the pretty ranch girl too hard to resist.
ranch guitar n.
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1947 R. Taylor Bar Nothing Ranch xvi. 190 She'd cuddle the ranch guitar and croon heartbreakingly.
ranch hand n.
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1857 Davenport (Iowa) Gaz. 15 July 1/4 Ten months ago I was working as a common ranch hand in the harvest field.
1951 E. Gillis & E. Myles North Pole Boarding House 6 A minister to the spiritual needs of the husky ranch-hands in Alberta's godless foothills.
2006 ‘L. Burana’ Try xxiv. 282 Goody's ranch hands were busy in every corner of the house, patching the roof and fitting in window panes.
ranch hide n.
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1892 Southern Calif. (S. Calif. Bureau Information) 55 What are known as ‘ranch hides’..can be purchased at a nominal price.
1978 Lancs. Life Mar. 70 (advt.) The seating area is in hard wearing ranch hide.
ranch hut n.
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1921 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-News 31 Jan. 1/2 (heading) Kidnaped woman is found in ranch hut.
2003 Express (Nexis) 31 Oct. 52 The dog is stinking up the ranch hut and all the farm's hands want to put it out of its misery.
ranch job n.
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1903 Anaconda (Montana) Standard 25 Aug. 3/3 Banks hired a horse to visit the ranch of A. A. Ellis, where he said he to get a ranch job for the winter.
1906 New Oxford (Pa.) Item 3 Aug. 2/2 Kate would take the ranch job.
2003 B. L. S. Thornburg Bertie & Me & Miles Too xxi. 89 Hauling hay to the cattle during the winter was another big ranch job.
ranch land n.
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1862 W. H. Brewer MS Let. 30 Nov. (Yale MS. 100, Ser. I, Box 9) Let me give you a morsel of California Ranch land History.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Feb. 94/2 The arrival of a stranger on the ranchlands of Clinton Prescott coincided with a fierce snowstorm.
1995 Country Apr.–May 15/3 Environmental awareness isn't the only legacy of Fox's childhood in the ranchland at the foot of the Rockies.
ranch life n.
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1857 Knickerbocker Oct. 353 Here ended my experience with ranch life.
1899 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. (1914) Dec. 4/2 It told me where to begin to talk ranch-life in Carson Valley.
1994 S. Butala Perfection of Morning ii. 28 Farm life is very different from ranch life although there are similarities, especially for people who do mixed farming.
ranch mark n.
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1885 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Oct. 331/1 The sack was let down..marked with the ranch-mark, the weight, the grade, and was ready for the freighters and a market.
1903 A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise iv. 110 Sleep, someone, whose name and ranchmarks I have forgotten, once observed, is much overrated.
1997 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xiv. 139 They wouldn't want to brand any mavericks, not with th' ranch mark.
ranch overseer n.
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1891 San Antonio (Texas) Daily Light 10 June He had gone in quest of Louis Plaget, Banker Daniel Sullivan's absconding ranch overseer.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent vi. 112 He was not really an hotel manager, but a ranch-overseer.
2005 C. Chalmers Early Mill Valley 23 The ranch overseer, Jacob Gardner, lived at the Homestead with his family.
ranch owner n.
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1869 Overland Monthly Apr. 338 The ranch owner presented a bill for her [sc. a mare's] keeping.
1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 99/2 After twenty years' experience as a ranch owner..the stooped, weathered, old buzzard retired with a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
2002 A. Proulx That Old Ace in Hole (2003) vi. 53 On a wild hunch Hugh Dough asked the crime lab to compare them with the decorative conchas on the ranch owner's handmade chaps.
ranch-owning adj.
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1890 N.Y. Times 24 May 4/3 The only advantages to be derived..were the limited ones we have mentioned, and those that would have been gained by a..group of ranch-owning Republican politicians.
1977 New Yorker 29 Aug. 46/3 Harlow comes from a ranch-owning family whose roots were established in northern California over several generations.
2005 C. Desjardins Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film v. 76 He's helped..by the ranch-owning widow of the cruellest bandit.
ranch woman n.
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1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly II. xv. 222 In the company of a ranchwoman, a farmeress.
1994 S. Butala Perfection of Morning ii. 29 Ranch women tend to be horsewomen, real outdoorswomen, with the same practised eye for cattle as the men.
b. Of a modern building: built in a style associated with ranches and (esp.) ranch houses; single-storey. Also: designating this style of construction. Cf. sense 1b.See also ranch house n. (b) at Compounds 2.
ranch bungalow n.
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1947 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 7 Apr. Classified section) 10/7 California ranch bungalow.
1995 Halton Hills (Ont.) Weekend 2 July b3/3 (advt.) Elegant entertaining in this 2800 sq. ft. ranch bungalow. Formal living and dining, main floor family room with floor-to-ceiling fireplace.
ranch dormitory n.
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1960 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 17 May 16/6 Robert Earhart..was missing at an 11 p.m. check today from the minimum security San Quentin Prison ranch dormitory.
1976 Columbus (Montana) News 27 May (Joliet Suppl.) 2/3 Housing [malefactors] in ranch and dairy dormitories.
ranch home n.
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1938 Sunset Sept. 48/1 (heading) Modern ranch homes in the old tradition.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 26 July 16/8 (advt.) Mini-farm, 19 acres, neat 5 room ranch home, almost borders Summit Lake.
2004 Veranda Jan.–Feb. 18 Diana Beattie..collaborates with Montana architect Larry Pearson to create an impressive log ranch home and dependencies in Wyoming.
ranch-style adj.
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1940 Nevada State Jrnl. 15 Sept. 15/2 (heading) New ‘ranch style’ home in greenfields addition.
1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. (Parade) 20/2 Dan Scarborough, the senior state senator from northeast Florida, was entertaining some friends in his family's sprawling ranch-style home.
2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 2 Apr. i. 10/3 In show business parlance, a bungalow is a one-story structure similar to a ranch-style home, except that it's used for offices.
ranch-type adj.
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1935 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 23 Sept. 5/3 A rambling ranch type home is nearing completion on Weddington street.
1956 W. H. Whyte Organization Man 11 It is difficult to see the three-button suit as more of a strait-jacket than overalls, or the ranch-type house than old law tenements.
1995 D. Coupland Microserfs (1996) i. 4 Growing up, I used to build split-level ranch-type homes out of Legos.
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ranch dressing n. originally U.S. a type of creamy salad dressing, typically made with buttermilk or sour cream.
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1962 Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer 29 Nov. (advt.) Salad Dressing... Ranch Dressing..33c.
2005 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 Jan. 8 The crispy chicken salad with ranch dressing has 24.2g of fat.
ranch egg n. U.S. regional (chiefly western) a fresh egg.
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the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [noun] > fresh egg
ranch egg1873
1873 Chicago Tribune 14 Sept. 6/3 Here, bring me some ranch-eggs.
1908 Sunset Dec. 792/2 If you were working with ranch eggs, store eggs or yard eggs, it might be different.
1966 ‘L. Holton’ Out of Depths xv. 149 Two ranch eggs with ham.
2002 Pinedale (Wyoming) Roundup 20 June 16/3 Barb said that people prefer ranch eggs over the eggs in the store.
ranch house n. (a) a house on a ranch; (b) a modern single-storey house designed to resemble this; = sense 1b.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmstead > [noun] > farmhouse
grangec1300
farmhouse1533
farm1583
hall-house1603
station house1840
homestead1849
ranch house1859
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > villa or country house > small
box1696
country box1722
villakin1730
cottage orné1774
villarette1792
ranch1807
bower1810
ranch house1859
villino?1863
dacha1896
1859 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 661/1 It was known as the Jocote Ranch-house.
1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada ii. 28 The roads..are flanked by small ranch-houses.
1933 J. Steinbeck in N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 423/2 At the ranch house, he found his mother sitting on the porch.
1935 Los Angeles Times 5 May v. 3/1 Illustrating the California ranch-house type of design, this house is seen to offer an interesting example of a type which especially conforms to the artistic and practical building needs of this locality.
1952 H. Innes Campbell's Kingdom i. ii. 33 The Fergus home was a low, sprawling ranch-house building.
1975 Woman's Jrnl. Sept. 62/1 Today..she lives in style in a palatial ranch-house in Beverly Hills.
1992 N.Y. Times 12 July iv. 1/2 The suburbanization of America..has made the voter in the bungalow or the ranch house the dominant figure in the nation's politics.
ranch mink n. a mink bred on a ranch; the fur of such a mink, or a coat made from this.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of mink
mink1431
kolinsky1851
ranch mink1934
Silverblu1941
tourmaline1957
sapphire mink1960
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > made of specific material
skin coat1533
buff1598
buff coat1633
hair-camlet1676
duffel1852
Guernsey coat1859
rabbit1877
polo coat1880
lammy coat1916
sheepskin1917
teddy bear1925
ranch mink1934
Persian1957
Persian lamb1959
leathers1962
leopard1973
Afghan1974
sable1975
squirrel1978
1934 N.Y. Times 11 Nov. c27/2 (advt.) Canadian ranch mink.
1936 Free Press (Winnipeg) 10 Dec. 14/1 One of the finest collections of ranch mink pelts ever to be offered in Montreal.
1952 S. Ellin Key to Nicholas Street i. i. 10 A ranch mink that is worth laying your life down for.
1976 Daily Record (Glasgow) 23 Nov. 18/2 Ranch mink brushes expensive mohair and the whole atmosphere is narcotic and totally unreal.
2000 Ecol. Applic. 10 950/2 The dramatic reproductive loss and mortality among ranch mink..fed Great Lakes fish attracted a great deal of attention.
ranchslider n. chiefly New Zealand an exterior sliding glass door.
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1958 Hartford (Connecticut) Daily Courant 27 July 12 c/3 (advt.) Special buys on Ranch Sliders.
1977 N.Z. Herald 5 Jan. ii. 16/8 (advt.) A sparkling new 3-brm townhouse... Ranchsliders to timber deck off lounge.
2003 C. Taylor Electric xi. 94 I knocked on the ranch slider. There was no reply.
ranch wagon n. (a) a horse-drawn wagon used on a ranch; (b) an estate car.In quot. 1952 as the name for a specific model of such a car.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > estate car
beach-wagon1869
ranch wagon1879
shooting brake1912
sport utility1925
station wagon1929
carryall1932
sports utility1940
ute1943
utility1944
estate car1950
wagon1955
estate wagon1959
SUV1987
1879 Daily Gaz. (Colorado Springs) 21 Mar. Mr. John Wilson started Wednesday with a load of freight in his ranch wagon for Leadville.
1886 T. Roosevelt in Outing July 387 I took along the ranch wagon, drawn by four shaggy horses.
1952 Washington Post 22 Feb. 12 f/2 The rear seat of the Ranch Wagon folds into the floor to form the hauling area.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 48/1 (advt.) 69 Ford 6-passenger ranch wagon, finished in a rich dark blue.
1975 Country Life 2 Jan. 32/1 One feature of these New World ranch wagons..is the tailgate.
1996 V. Begamudré in W. Tefs et al. Due West 224 Amanda shushed the girls in the ranch wagon while he scraped the windows.
Derivatives
ˈranchless adj. rare devoid of a ranch or ranches.
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1888 Home Missionary (N.Y.) May 15 We were away out on even the ranchless plains.
1963 Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press 11 Feb. 12/2 Large Canadian cities around which have sprung up mushroom suburbs of ranchless ranch type houses.
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† ranchv.1
Obsolete. In later use English regional (east midlands and East Anglian).
transitive. To tear, cut, or scratch, esp. deeply. Also occasionally intransitive.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)]
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carvec1000
cutc1275
slitc1275
hag1294
ritc1300
chop1362
slash1382
cut and carvea1398
flash?a1400
flish?a1400
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race?a1425
raise?a1425
razea1425
scotch?c1425
ochec1440
slitec1450
ranch?a1525
scorchc1550
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mincea1560
rash?1565
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fent1589
engrave1590
nick1592
snip1593
carbonado1596
rescide1598
skice1600
entail1601
chip1609
wriggle1612
insecate1623
carbonate1629
carbonade1634
insecta1652
flick1676
sneg1718
snick1728
slot1747
sneck1817
tame1847
bite-
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > tear [verb (transitive)]
tearc1000
renta1325
reavea1400
lacerate?a1425
raise?a1425
rivea1425
shearc1450
unsoundc1450
ranch?a1525
rechec1540
pilla1555
wreathe1599
intertear1603
shark1611
vulture1628
to tear at1848
spalt1876
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 815 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 83 How thys paynfull passyon rancheth myn hart!
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads v. 856 A javelin..his belly graz'd upon..and ranch'd the flesh.
1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving iii. i. 37 He that rancheth the flesh of my child, had as good kisse—.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Meleager & Atalanta in Fables 110 [The boar] ranch'd his Hips with one continu'd Wound.
1706 S. Garth Dispensary (ed. 6) v. 89 Emeticks ranch, and keen Catharticks scour.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Ranch, to scratch deeply and severely, as with a nail.
Derivatives
ranching adj.
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1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote iv. xix. 233 Fierce Whelps, which shall imitate the raunching paws of their valorous Father.
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† ranchv.2
Obsolete.
transitive. To pull, pluck.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > away > away, out, or off violently
rend?c1225
rendc1225
rasea1387
renta1398
renda1400
racea1413
rachec1425
rivec1440
rash1485
rush1485
ranch1579
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Aug. 99 Hasting to raunch the arrow out.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 32 Not a weede sprung vp, but..was weeded and rauenously rauncht vp.
1634 W. Lathum Phyala Lachrymarum 38 The silly shrub that there beside was growne, I likewise saw quite rooted up and rancht.
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ranchv.3
/rɑːn(t)ʃ/, /ran(t)ʃ/, U.S. /ræn(t)ʃ/ chiefly North American.
1.
a. transitive. To put or keep (an animal or animals) on a ranch; to breed or rear on a ranch or in large numbers.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture > types of pasturing
summer1601
to be (also go or run) at shack1706
range1816
shacka1825
ranch1851
summering place1968
1851 Semi-Weekly Eagle (Brattleboro, Vermont) 26 May 2 I..went back over the mountains.., selling provisions to the emigrants, and bringing stock which I ranched (pastured) about 6 weeks.
1868 C. W. Dilke Greater Brit. I. xvi. 119 ‘Corral’, in this sense, is the Mexican cattle inclosure; the yard where the team-mules are ranched.
1884 Times 25 Dec. 4/3 The man who has..ranched cattle in America.
1916 Yukon Territory (Canada Dept. Interior) x. 177 Foxes should be ranched in woodland areas.
1935 Discovery Feb. 50/2 Animals so purchased will be ranched and tended by the vendor.
1972 D. Seward Monks of War 154 The freyles [sc. Knights of Calatrava]..also exploited the barren mesetas in true Cistercian style, ranching cattle, horses, goats, pigs and, in particular, sheep.
2001 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 27 399 Modern farmers had tilled the soils, harvested cereals, brewed beer and ranched cattle for a 1,000 years.
b. transitive. Of land: to use for or manage by ranching; (also) to let for grazing.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > management of pasture > use as pasture [verb (transitive)] > in spec way
ranch1901
strip-graze1960
paddock-graze1969
1901 B. Harte Under Redwoods 74 It caused her to remove to Santa Ana, where her old father had feebly ranched a ‘quarter section’ in the valley.
1927 Daily Tel. 23 Aug. 11/6 The large arable farms..must..be grassed down, and ranched at a nominal rent.
1965 F. Symington Tuktu 13 If the central Arctic were being systematically ‘ranched’ with caribou herds.
1991 Forbes 2 Sept. 318/2 (advt.) We've ranched this area for almost two decades.
2003 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 21 Aug. b1 He farmed and ranched the land his family had worked for four generations.
2.
a. intransitive. To manage a ranch. Also transitive with it.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > rear animals [verb (intransitive)]
store1611
ranch1853
breed1859
farm1891
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > keep cattle [verb (intransitive)]
ranch1890
stock-keep1890
1853 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 24 Mar. He is doing a heavy mercantile business and is Ranching on a most extensive scale.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xxxiv. 242 He had been farming (or ranching as the more customary term is) in the Washoe District.
1890 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 32 The jolly fellows who ranch it in the West.
1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 235/2 She told of driving a fighting bronchos to a buggy when the family ranched in the Bad Lands.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 28 June 5- a/2 The bridegroom graduated..with a degree in agriculture. The newlyweds will ranch near Boyes.
1996 D. R. Parks Myths & Trad. Arikara Indians 44 Matthew raised crops and ranched and was active in the Catholic church.
b. intransitive. To let land for grazing. rare.
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1910 Blackwood's Mag. July 126/2 He is ‘ranching’, that is, letting grazing on the eleven months' system.
Derivatives
ranched adj. (of an animal or animals) confined to or bred on a ranch; reared in large numbers; (of fur) taken from an animal of this type.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [adjective] > reared > reared on ranch
ranched1932
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [adjective] > attributes of furs generally
pureda1382
stag1545
burnt1909
furriered1923
ranched1932
sheared1939
let-out1949
1932 Winnipeg Free Press 24 Dec. 18/6 Ranched mink ranged between $4 and $8 excluding lows.
1959 Times 4 May 17/1 Fur auction houses in London, New York and Montreal sold by auction a record total of ranched furs.
1983 Sci. Amer. July 49/2 Ranched salmon are homing in large numbers to release sites.
1993 L. Gruen in G. Gaard Ecofeminism iii. 71 ‘Ranched’ animals are generally confined in small wire cages for their entire lives.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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