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ranch

  [ranch]
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–noun
1. an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
2. Chiefly Western U.S. and Canada. a large farm used primarily to raise one kind of crop or animal: a mink ranch.
3. a dude ranch.
4. the persons employed or living on a ranch.
5. ranch house.
–verb (used without object)
6. to manage or work on a ranch.
Origin:
1800–10, Americanism; < Sp rancho rancho

Related forms:
ranchless, adjective
ranchlike, adjective
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ranch   (rānch)   
n.  

  1. An extensive farm, especially in the western United States, on which large herds of cattle, sheep, or horses are raised.

  2. A large farm on which a particular crop or kind of animal is raised: a mink ranch.

  3. A house in which the owner of an extensive farm lives.

intr.v.   ranched, ranch·ing, ranch·es
To manage or work on a ranch.

[American Spanish rancho, small farm, from Spanish, hut, group of people who eat together, from Old Spanish rancharse, to be billeted, from Old French se ranger, to be arranged, from renc, reng, row, line, of Germanic origin; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
ranch

  1. n.
    semen. (Alludes to Ranch [salad] dressing. Objectionable if understood.) : God! There's ranch on the bathroom floor!
  2. in.
    to ejaculate. (Objectionable if understood.) : Just looking at her makes me want to ranch.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

ranch 
1808, "country house," from Amer.Sp. rancho "small farm, group of farm huts," from Sp. rancho, originally, "group of people who eat together," from ranchear "to lodge or station," from O.Fr. ranger "install in position," from rang "row, line" (see rank (n.)). Sense of "large cattle-breeding estate" is from 1831. Meaning "single-story split-level house" is from 1960. Ranchero "one employed on a ranch" is from 1826.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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