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range ((n.)) † 

• 1 n. Maritimes, Hist. one of a series of lots often ranged back from a river bank.

  See also: concession (def. 1)  

  • 1832  . . . many lots in the rear are all thickly settled, even to the fifth tier or range from the River St. John, and several settlements are formed along the boundary line.
  • 1860  Five instead of ten schools would be sufficient for that range section of the country.
  • 1916  [He chose] No. 10, in the 6th range on the banks of a beautiful navigable river.

• 2a n. Que. a row of concessions (def. 1).

  See also: concessions (def. 1)  

  • 1789  In another piece of Land at the end of the above mentioned of three arpents in front of by one arpent in depth, or there about joining the road of the second range.
  • 1789  The whole said piece of land . . . is bounded in front partly by the river Richelieu, behind by the range of concessions.

• 2b n. Que., Ont. a row of lots comprising a concession (def. 2); also, such a concession as a unit.

  See also: concession (def. 2)  rank  

  • 1790  (1905)  The first project . . . was to have the townships laid out into 8, 10, 12, or more ranges of Lots called Concessions, according to the depth of the Township.
  • 1833  Some thirty years ago, this and the adjoining townships were surveyed and laid out into ranges and lots.
  • 1954  The second stretch will include all the waters in front of Crown Land extending from a point opposite the south-east angle of Lot No. 22 in the province of New Brunswick, Range 2 of Patapedia township in the province of Quebec, upstream to the mouth of Tom Ferguson's Brook.
  • 1958  "Doctor," he said, "I come from the sixth range of Laval (a small village among the Laurentians, in the Montmorency river district), and I want you to come with me at once. . . ."

• 3 † n. West See 1952 quote.

  See also: range line  

  • 1885  A real ghost roams about township 14, range 15, and is occasionally very destructively inclined, having destroyed all the cabbages and other garden truck belonging to an ex-Captain.
  • 1952  Each meridional row of townships is called a "range" and these are numbered from east to west, beginning at each principal meridian.
  • 1958  The square bordering it on west was called Township 1, Range 2. . . .

• 4 † n. (often plural) Esp. West extensive areas of grassland suitable for grazing.

  See also: rangeland  

  • 1890  The cattle are fat and sleek, though they have had nothing but what they could find on the "range" all winter.
  • 1913  Here on the prairie, the crust was the result of the soft Chinook west winds that came across the ranges, and melted the snow swiftly--only to let it freeze again into a sheathing of armor-plate.
  • 1962  They had a general round-up [of people] of the hull range.
  • 1963  It is true that in some instances there are now fewer animals on some ranges than there were a few years ago--but today we no longer see the winter kills that were common on overpopulated ranges.