[ranch] 
| 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. |
| 6. | to manage or work on a ranch. |
| ranch (rānch) n.
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.] |
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