DCHP-1 Online
fruit ranch † Esp. B.C. 
n. a fruit farm; a commercial orchard.
See also: ranch ((1)) ((n.)) (def. 2c)
- 1911 "Yes, you are quite right about that, especially when a person has to be man and woman both on a fruit-ranch...."
- 1953 The Okanagan with its pleasant little towns and its fruit ranches--everything is a ranch in B.C. . . . constitutes a good big stretch of settled countryside.
- 1911 "Yes, you are quite right about that, especially when a person has to be man and woman both on a fruit-ranch...."