rangern.1
/ˈreɪn(d)ʒə/, U.S. /ˈreɪndʒər/ A person who or thing which ranges.† 3. A person who sets things in order, esp. one who ranges troops for battle. Obsolete. rare.
1.
a. Originally: a forester, a gamekeeper. Subsequently: a keeper of a royal park (also as an honorary title). Now esp.: a warden of a national or state park or forest; cf. park ranger n. at park n. Compounds 2. Also in extended use.fire ranger: see fire n. and int. Compounds 2a.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > forester > officer in charge of forest
woodwardc1050
forester1297
ranger1327
walker1482
keeper1488
wood-master15..
grazierc1503
wood-reeve1579
woodman1594
Warden of the Forest1598
rider1647
conservator1733
woodwarden1748
wood-forester1865
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > gamekeeping > [noun] > gamekeeper
warrener1297
ranger1327
walker1482
underkeeper1502
browser1538
tineman1577
waterkeeper1590
gamekeeper1645
rider1647
preserver1749
garde champêtre1814
field ranger1835
warden1835
velveteens1857
keeper1863
game warden1876
pisteur1936
society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > forest or park officials
forester1297
ranger1327
paler1464
paleman1503
bow-bearera1552
palester1574
agistor1594
Warden of the Forest1598
gist-taker1626
rider1647
agister1677
gavellerc1692
field ranger1835
1327 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 72 (MED) Sim. Ranger.
1375 Inquisition Post Mortem (P.R.O.: C 135/252) m. 23 Et est ibidem [sc. Rotherfield, Sussex] vnus Raungier per totam chaciam predictam.
1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 318/1 Almaner and singuler Offices of Foresters and Raungers of oure said Forestes.
1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 543/2 Provided alwey that this Acte..extende not..to John Peke..one of the Raungers within oure Forest of Dene..and to John Kendale..oon of the Raungers..within the seid Forest.
1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. Biii I come for my selfe and suche other mo Rangers and kepers of certayne places As forestes, parkes, purlewes and chases.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 159 [Wolves] walk not widely, as they were woont, For fear of raungers, and the great hoont.
1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 288 The lopps and topps were all worth but 46s, and he agreed with the Ranger of the Forrest for them.
1653 W. Denny Pelecanicidium iii. ix. 199 A Lodg is the lonelie Dwelling of A Keeper in a Park; Of a Ranger in a Chace; or of a Forrester in a Forrest.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 420 Tyrrheus, chief Ranger to the Latian King.
1717 J. Gay Three Hours after Marriage i. 1 The Clergy have a noble Command, in being Rangers of the Park of Matrimony.
1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) 131 We afterwards recollected that lord Bute was ranger of the park.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. 106 He heard the rangers' loud halloo, Beating each cover..As if to start the sylvan game.
1895 Whitaker's Almanack 169/2 St. James's, Green, and Hyde Parks—Ranger, H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge.
1938 R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 40 The rangers had spotted them spearing the trout.
1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. 3/2 The Simonstown Town Council is inviting applications from people to act as beach rangers during the summer season at R20 a week.
1976 J. van de Wetering Tumbleweed xiii. 132 He became a ranger on a nature reserve.
1995 Guardian 10 Aug. (Society section) 5/5 The Duke of Edinburgh is ranger of Windsor Great Park.
2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 2 June i. 6/5 A Zambian ranger..said that photo-tour operators..have been battling for rights to the park.
b. Originally U.S., now chiefly Australian and New Zealand. An officer employed to round up stray domestic animals or livestock.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > droving > rounding up > person or persons
ranger1744
musterer1863
roundup1878
1744 Pennsylvania Gaz. 15 Nov. 3/3 (advt.) Any Person or Persons, who have lost one or more of the following Strays, by applying to William Hartley, of Charles Town, Chief-Ranger for Chester County,..may be informed where to find them.
1796 in G. Imlay Topogr. Descr. W. Territory N. Amer. (1797) 535 [The county court] shall also have power to appoint one register and ranger for the county, who shall hold their offices during good behaviour.
1828 Cherokee Phoenix (New Echota, Georgia) 27 Mar. 1/2 The ranger shall be entitled to one dollar for every horse so posted.
1886 Evening Bell (Auckland, N.Z.) 29 June 8/4 Borough of Newton. Written applications for Poundkeeper and Ranger will be received up to 5 o'clock on Thursday, July 1.
1926 A. F. Webb Miss Peters' Special 50 The ranger's got the cow.
1990 Kalgoorlie (W. Austral.) Miner 13 Mar. 4/2 The lawful procedure regarding nuisance dogs is for the offended person to advise the town ranger.
2005 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 May 5 While livestock owners are responsible for keeping their stock inside their properties, councils are obliged to send rangers to contain the animals if alerted to stray cattle.
2. † b. A wave of unusually great height and force. Obsolete. rare.
a. A rover, a wanderer; †a rake (obsolete). Also: (Australian) = bush-ranger n.See also beach, prairie ranger at first word.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person
unthriftc1330
riotor1389
rioterc1440
palliard1484
skyrgalliarda1529
rakehellc1560
ranger1560
rakeshame1598
dissolute1608
pavement-beater1611
rakell1622
ranter1652
huzza1660
whorehopper1664
profligate1679
rakehellonian1692
rake1693
buck1725
blood1749
gay blade1750
have-at-alla1761
rakehellyc1768
hell-rake?1774
randan1779
rip1781
roué1781
hell-raker1816
tiger1827
raver1960
dog1994
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer
striker1393
roamerc1400
wandererc1440
whirlerc1440
gangrela1450
fluttererc1450
straggler1530
gadlinga1542
ranger1560
rover1568
fugitive1570
rangler1575
fleeter1581
extravagant1583
scatterling1590
vagranta1592
rambler1624
erratic1669
stravaiger1821
multivagant1895
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > brigand > [noun] > in other countries
dacoit1788
gang-robber1812
bush-ranger1817
klepht1820
flayer1832
ranger1840
dacoity1849
sticker-up1853
boh1888
demon1909
shifta1920
1560 T. Churchyard Contention betwyxte Churchyeard & Camell sig. Bi/1 Mad raungers, that so raunge at large.
1593 N. Breton in Phœnix Nest (Grosart) I. 6/1 The Rookes, no raungers out of raie The Pawnes, the pages [etc.].
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered v. 17 Accusing his father..for an whoremaster and..a raunger.
1636 T. Heywood Loves Maistresse Epil., in Wks. (1874) V. 88 Mercury shall flie..Upon your errands, prove your happy ranger.
1696 T. Dilke Lover's Luck i. 7 We are both at present as it were Rangers, and Men at large.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 119 in Wks. (1721) II. The Rangers in the wild just God design'd [etc.].
1788 P. Stockdale Ximenes iii. viii. 68 Check the wild ranger with the curb of reason.
1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 173 I've been a ranger In search of pleasure throughout every clime.
1840 Sydney Herald 9 Sept. 2/3 It seems as though the constabulary there, are either too weak-handed or hearted!—for the rangers are still there, and at large.
1862 Mudgee (New S. Wales) Liberal 28 Nov. 2/6 Down on his knees pops our repentant ranger, and earnestly pleads for mercy for the sake of his wife and babes.
1865 J. M. Neale Hymns Paradise 28 On this sea my bark, poor ranger, Is from pirates sore in danger.
1920 D. M. Boyle Where Lilith Dances ii. 28 Who is the stranger, With morn in his eyes, This desperate ranger Of earth and the skies?
1980 O. Ruhen Bullock Teams 86 A few experiences with bushrangers had taught him to be careful of the way he carried money…Usually, however, the 'rangers did not rib the teamsters.
2000 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 6 Jan. 18 Madison-based rock band Paradox..is a group of rock rangers wandering from the heavy to the more progressive sides of the rock scale.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > unusually large
sea1582
tenth wave1585
sea-mountain1694
mountain wave1696
seventh wave1759
death wave1832
fluctuosity1850
Spanish wave1852
ranger1891
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Aug. 4/3 The character of the great wave is a mystery... The sailors declared that it was a not unfamiliar phenomenon, and called it ‘a ranger’.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] > action of arranging > one who
disponer1558
placera1578
ranger1611
disposer1624
marshaller1718
arranger1826
composer1836
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Chron. xii. 33 (margin) Rangers of battell.
1626 G. Markham Souldiers Gram. v. 60 The Rangers of such Battailes haue returned Victors.
a1703 R. Hooke Disc. Earthquakes in Posthumous Wks. (1705) 279 Readers of History, Criticks, Rangers and Namesetters of Things.
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a. A hunting dog that ranges over the ground.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog
kennet?a1400
greffier1575
velter1598
lucern1607
huntera1616
ranger1616
gun-dog1746
sporter1825
hunting dog1833
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxii. 679 It is hard to haue one spannell to be absolute cunning in all the qualities of hunting, as to be an excellent raunger, an excellent finder, and an excellent retainer.
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper v. i. 52 Your coupled Spaniels, when they are once let loose, are afterwards the highest Rangers.
1736 J. Kelly French Idioms 15/2 That dog has too much mettle (it is too high a ranger).
1754 A. Berthelson Eng. & Danish Dict. at Ranger A dog that is a high or good ranger, en goed spor-hund.
1859 ‘Stonehenge’ Dog ii. v. 315 A wider ranger, with perhaps a trifle less delicacy of nose, will be preferred for grouse-shooting.
1890 H. H. Dogs for Gun iii. iii. 103 I took him [sc. a pointer] out with five high rangers in a 200 acre field.
1921 Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Texas) 3 July (advt.) Well trained, a wide ranger; a wonderful hunting dog.
1990 L. Mueller Speed train your Bird Dog ii. xvii. 212 This is also a handy command in case a less-than-animated short ranger starts pottering on foot scent.
b. Canadian. The common or harbour seal, Phoca vitulina, esp. one in its third year. Also ranger seal.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus phoca > phoca vitulina (common seal)
sealc893
sea-calfa1387
sea-dog1598
soile1602
harbour seal1766
doter1770
ranger1771
1771 G. Cartwright Jrnl. 30 June (1792) I. 136 At one o'clock this morning the rinders returned..and informed me that they..had killed an otter, a porcupine, and a ranger.
1861 L. De Boilieu Recoll. Labrador Life 97 The next kind is a small and beautiful animal, called the Ranger, which remains on the coast all the winter.
1884 J. A. Allen in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 58 The Harbor Seal. Phoca vitulina. The young are there [i.e. in Newfoundland] also called ‘Rangers’.
1895 Outing 27 214/2 We..secured a fine young ranger seal.
1906 N. Duncan Adventures Billy Topsail 281 Archie and Billy came upon a family of four..two grown harps, a ‘jar’, which is a one year old seal, and a ranger, which is three years old and spotted like a leopard.
1958 A. W. Cameron Canad. Mammals 55 The dark markings are responsible for another name often applied to him—‘leopard seal’... In Newfoundland he bears the unusual name ‘ranger’.
1977 C. Brice-Bennett Our Footpr. are Everywhere 128 Ranger and grey seals migrate north to shallow areas near rocky shores... Old rangers (dotters) are especially clever at concealing themselves.
c. Any of various other animals; esp. (North American) a variety of the black bear, Ursus americanus. Now rare.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Ursus > miscellaneous types of
ranger1825
sun bear1833
1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. iii. 177 A species of large red Ant in Guiana, sometimes called Ranger, sometimes Coushie.
1846 C. L. Hatheway Hist. New Brunswick 64 The common Ant Bear has very short legs, and is considered less destructive among the stock than the long-legged ranger, with a brown nose and a white spot in his breast.
1868 Amer. Naturalist 1 657 I had at one time two tamed [black bears]... One was what is called the ‘Ranger’ Bear... The other was what is called a ‘Hog Bear’... I am sure the Hog Bear and Ranger are of one species.
1887 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 4 278 The Sp. besugo, a kind of sea-bream, is called in English ranger.
1905 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 11 Mar. 6/4 A ranger-bear learned in traps and the ways of men.
d. U.S. A horse used, or a cow or sheep grazed, on the range.
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1855 F. S. Marryat Mountains & Molehills xi I had two horses; one was an old grey ‘Texian Ranger’.
1885 Weekly New Mexican Rev. 7 May 3/6 Benjamin McLean,..now a heavy cattle raiser in Socorro county, with 28,000 head of rangers there, is stopping at the Las Vegas springs.
1887 S. Powers Amer. Merino xxii. 214 In the southern half of this region there are still immense numbers of the old natives, or ‘mountain rangers’, whose bald heads denote a mongrel Leicester blood.
1903 Rep. Kansas State Board Agric. 1901–2 15 The best rangers I ever saw on the Chicago market were high-grade Short-horns from Montana.
1922 A. C. Davenport Amer. Live Stock Market xiv. 108 There are several different kinds of cattle: Natives, that is, cattle bred and raised on the farms of the corn belt and eastern states; westerns or rangers, the kind commonly produced on the big ranches or ranges of the western states.
1935 Amer. Speech 10 271/2 Rangers, unfattened lambs or other stock from the range territory.
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a. Chiefly North American. A member of an organized body of armed men who range over a tract of country for its protection. Cf. ranging company n. at ranging adj. Compounds. Now historical.partisan, Texas Ranger, etc.: see the first element.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > cavalry > foreign
ranger1670
Hamidieh1898
1670 H. Cole in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1800) 1st Ser. VI. 211 [I] saw one of captain Willet's rangers coming on post on horseback.
1692 Cal. Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 38 [Petition of Left David Straughan and] ‘eight Rangers’ [for pay for services].
1733 Colonial Rec. Georgia (1905) III. 90 Captain Macpherson with fifteen of the Rangers..cover'd and protected the new Settlers.
1742 State Prov. Georgia (1897) 15 For the defense of the colony now, it is necessary to have..rangers who can ride the woods.
1780 J. Rogers (title) A sermon preached at Lisnavein..to the Lisnavein Independent Rangers, Trough Volunteers, Lisluney Volunteers, and Monaghan Rangers.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. iv. 81 The rangers in Virginia, who were sent out against the Cherokee Indians.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies ii, in Crayon Misc. I. 24 We learnt that a company of mounted rangers, or rifle~men, had departed but three days previous.
1882 H. de Windt On Equator 34 The ‘Sarawak Rangers’..are recruited from Malays and Dyaks.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 2 June 8/3 Governor Ysabel, of the Mexican province of Senora [sic],..will be met there by a force of American rangers from Bisbee... It is thought that the arrival of the Rangers from Bisbee will restore order.
1952 Agric. Hist. 26 19/2 Frontier defense used garrisons, militia, and rangers to patrol from garrison to garrison.
2004 W. R. Nester Frontier War for Amer. Independence 151 Their general..did nothing to delay the enemy and little to determine Burgoyne's intentions other than send out Whitcomb's rangers.
b. Chiefly U.S. With capital initial. A member of an elite American military unit specially trained for close combat and raiding; = commando n. 3a.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun]
spahi1562
legionnaire1595
strelitz1603
Croat1623
deli1667
Croatian1700
lancer1712
highlander1725
lambs1744
royals1762
light-bob1778
fly-slicer1785
Life Guardsman1785
royals?1795
Hottentot1796
yeoman1798
pandour1800
Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811
forty-two man1816
kilty1842
Zouave1848
bumblerc1850
Inniskilliner1853
blue cap1857
turco1860
Zou-Zou1860
mudlark1878
king's man1883
Johnny1888
Piffer1892
evzone1897
horse gunner1897
dink1906
army ranger1910
grognard1912
Jock1914
chocolate soldier1915
Cook's tourist1915
dinkum1916
Anzaca1918
choc1917
ranger1942
Chindit1943
Desert Rat1944
Green Beret1949
1942 Christian Sci. Monitor 19 Aug. 7/6 Rifle tracer bullets singed by so close that one punctured a mess kit slung from a Ranger's belt.
1942 N.Y. Times 20 Aug. 1/5 The first American troops to receive a baptism of fire in Europe in this war were the men of the United States Ranger Battalion who fought in the Dieppe raid today. It was the first time the name Rangers had appeared in a war communiqué anywhere.
1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze vii. 180 The Commandos had a number of Rangers, their American counterparts, attached to them for experience.
1994 R. H. Scales Certain Victory 28 The Ranger battalions did indeed set the standards throughout the Army for training, physical fitness, and discipline.
2004 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 24 Apr. b1/2 The former Arizona Cardinals safety was killed Thursday night in a firefight while on combat patrol with the Army Rangers in Afghanistan.
6. Originally British. Usually with capital initial. = Ranger Guide n. at Compounds.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > members of scouts or guides
Boy Scout1908
patrol leader1908
scout1908
scoutmaster1908
tenderfoot1908
captain1909
Girl Guide1909
Girl Scout1909
lieutenant1909
pathfinder1911
sea scout1911
rosebud1914
brownie1916
sixer1916
tenderpad1916
Brown Owl1918
rover1918
Rover Scout1918
ranger1920
tawny owl1921
Cub1922
Akela1924
scouter1930
Guider1931
den mother1936
Queen's Guide1946
Queen's Scout1952
Venture Scout1966
Beaver1975
skipper1986
1920 O. Baden-Powell in Girl Guides' Gaz. June 102/1 Here it is: ‘Ranger’. If you look it up in the dictionary you will find it means quite a number of things. To range is ‘to set in proper order’, ‘to roam’, and this might well mean that you are going to tread ground as a Senior Guide that as a Guide you have not yet passed.
1921 G. I. J. Potts Girl Guide Badges 2 The Service Star for Guiders and Rangers is worn on a red cloth ground.
1929 Second Bk. of Ranger Games 72 This is a favourite game with Rangers.
1944 Times 5 May 7/2 Guiders, Rangers, Guides and Brownies continued to render valuable war service.
1977 Daily Tel. 2 June 18 Early photographs showing the Queen, Princess Margaret and other members of the Royal family as Brownies, Guides or Rangers will be among the exhibits.
2007 N. Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 12 July 10 In her role as girl guide she is set to be presented with the Baden Powell award..before moving on to the new rangers group in September.
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Ranger Guide n. originally British a member of the senior branch of the Guides Association (formerly known as the Girl Guides Association).After leaving the Guides Section, a girl can become a member of the Ranger Guides. The age at which one can become a Ranger Guide varies from country to country; in Britain, Ranger Guides are between 14 and 25 years of age.
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1920 O. Baden-Powell in Girl Guides' Gaz. June 102/2 Another definition is that to range is to ‘sail along in a parallel direction’, and so we can feel that the Ranger Guides are complementary to the Rover Scouts.
1976 Ulverston (Cumbria) News 3 Dec. 1/4 She has kept up her membership of the Ranger Guides and still finds time for some needlework.
2005 Daily Mail (Nexis) 2 Nov. 61 I ended up marrying someone who had spent an indecent amount of her teenage years in the Ranger Guides.
Ranger Guider n. originally British a leader of a unit of Ranger Guides.
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1936 M. M. Monteith (Girl Guides Assoc.) (title) The Ranger Guider's job.
1977 Guider July 319/2 An enthusiastic Ranger Guider will invite older Guides to some of the interesting Ranger activities as ‘tasters’.
2001 S. Wales Echo (Nexis) 31 Dec. 3 Former Ranger Guider Dorothy Head admits she's ‘still quaking from head to foot’ at the thought of meeting the Queen.
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† rangern.2
Obsolete.
A sieve. Also ranger sieve. Cf. range n.2
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > straining > [noun] > strainer
strainer1326
renge?1362
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strain1432
searcec1440
sye1468
runnera1475
ranger1485
renger1510
searce-net1526
colatory?1541
range1542
sight1559
sythe1568
colature1577
tamis1601
sile-dish1668
hurdle1725
kenting1725
stamin1725
tammy1769
tamin1847
vat-neta1884
chinois1937
1485 in G. W. Kitchin Compotus Rolls St. Swithun's, Winchester (1892) 383 j Ranger.
1498 in G. W. Kitchin Compotus Rolls St. Swithun's, Winchester (1892) 387 In j Fyne Ranger empto x d. In iiij Cours Rangers emptis xviij d.
1562 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) I. 178 A syve & a ranger.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 100 Rushes so big, that they will serue to make sieues, rangers, and vans.
1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (ed. 2) ii. 105 Take out the quinces and let them coole, and let the pickle in which they were boyld, stand to coole also; then straine it through a raunger siue.
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rangerv.1
/rɒ̃ˈʒeɪ/, U.S. /rɑnˈʒeɪ/ Now rare.
transitive (reflexive). To adopt a more regular lifestyle; to settle down. Cf. rangé adj. 2, range v.1 13.Used only in the infinitive form.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > way of life > [verb (reflexive)] > adopt a regular way of life
range1854
ranger1854
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxxii. 320 It is high time that Kew should ranger himself... I am sure he will make the best husband..in England.
1883 W. James Let. 2 May in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 753 The time had come that I should ranger myself.
1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xiii. 182 I heard somewhere you were goin' to be married... What do you call it—ranger yourself?
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rangerv.2
/ˈreɪn(d)ʒə/, U.S. /ˈreɪndʒər/ Chiefly U.S.
intransitive. To be or act as a ranger; spec. to work as a park or forest ranger.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > keep cattle [verb (intransitive)] > herd cattle
bubulcitate1623
night-herd1888
ranger1909
punch1910
swamp1926
1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xvi. 263 We fought Kiowas, drove cattle, and rangered side by side nearly all over Texas.
1979 P. L. Sandberg Stubb's Run ii. 9 He had rangered in the Sawcut for seventeen years.
2002 San Gabriel Valley (Calif.) Tribune (Nexis) 13 Jan. Angle rangered in California parks and led the charge to save the state's redwoods.
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