ranch

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large farm or tract of land used primarily for raising cattle, sheep, horses, or other livestock

   The family raises beef cattle on a ranch in western Texas.

2. 2
   verb

   to own, manage, or work on a ranch

   She learned to ranch in dry country where water had to be carefully managed.

From American Spanish rancho, originally a group eating together or their temporary camp, then a herders' hut or small farm. English ranch developed in the nineteenth-century American West for a large livestock property and then produced the verb.

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