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rancher

• 1 n. a person who owns or operates a ranch for raising livestock.

  See also: ranch ((1)) ((n.)) (def. 1b)  ranchman (def. 1)  ranch ((1)) ((v.)) (def. 1)  

  • 1882  Remember in a dry fall a box of matches, well-applied, will put both large and small ranchers on an even footing.
  • 1908  The branch lines connecting the outlying ranches would be of untold convenience to ranchers living at a distance, saving them many a long trip over our bum roads.
  • 1965  One rancher is said to have brought 400 horses overland all the way from New Mexico.

• 2 n. an operator of a fur farm (def. 1).

  See also: ranch ((1)) ((n.)) (def. 2a)  ranch ((1)) ((v.)) (def. 3)  

  • 1928  (1953)  Now these ranchers are aware that there is an ever increasing number of people who wish to procure this information free of all study, risk and cost, which would at once put them on a competitive basis by getting a start with wild stock.
  • 1946  Fortunes have been made in a few years' time out of mink ranching. . . .
  • 1965  Ranchers who breed mink find that they have to spend a great amount in order to feed the mink correctly.

• 3 n. the owner of a ranch (def. la).

  See also: ranch ((1)) ((n.)) (def. 1a)  

  • 1966  . . . they [Indians] kept their credit good with the fur traders and ranchers who advanced them grub against their winter's catch of furs and haying wages.

• 4 n. a style of one-storey house characterized by long, low spaciousness.

  See also: ranch-house ((1)) (def. 2)  

  • 1965  [Advert.] _RANCHER . . . close to Burnaby Park and swimming pool.