| 1. | a farm, with its farmhouse and nearby buildings. |
| 2. | Chiefly British. a country house with its various farm buildings, usually constituting the dwelling of a yeoman or gentleman farmer. |
| 3. | the Grange. See under Granger Movement. |
| 4. | Archaic. a barn or granary. |
| a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, esp. in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange), a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes. |