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noun

Rancho n. (pl. ranchos)

A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.

A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation. (Mexico & California)

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Etymology of 'Rancho'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rancho" Quotes from Famous Books

... rancho goato" at once. Our friends in the East were delighted with the idea, and many were their gibes. One in particular always added something to the address of his letters for the guide or diversion of ...

— The Smiling Hill-Top - And Other California Sketches • Julia M. Sloane

... Rancho was well ordered under the direct supervision of Walter Stone's foreman, "Brand" Williams. Williams was a Wyoming cowman of the old ...

— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... heat of a July afternoon, Mrs. Cyrus Austin Phelps, of Boston, arrived unexpectedly at the Yerba Buena rancho in California. She was the only passenger to leave the train at the little sun-burned platform that served as a station, and found not even a freight agent there, of whom to ask the way to Miss Manzanita Boone's residence. There were a few glittering lizards whisking about on the dusty ...

— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris

... their escopetas. The march was rapid; and the jolly tars, unused to such extended journeys, appear to have suffered from its effects; in consequence of which, although the enemy gradually fell back before the advancing column, between one and two o'clock, when near the Rancho de los Domingos, fourteen miles from San Pedro, it became necessary to halt and encamp ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne

... without heeding her). That's a sweet voice for a serenade. Round, full, high-shouldered, and calkilated to fetch a man every time. Only thar ain't, to my sartain knowledge, one o' them chaps within a mile of the rancho. (Laughs.) ...

— Two Men of Sandy Bar - A Drama • Bret Harte