Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stock-farm.

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Examples

  • But some fifty miles to the north of Ranch Number Ten, on the far-flung acres of the biggest stock-ranch in the State, there was another Packard to whom rumors came swiftly.

    Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912

  • Thus, the prospector, the miner, and mining and railroad companies are allowed by law to take all the timber they like for their mines and roads, and the forbidden settler, if there are no mineral lands near his farm or stock-ranch, or none that he knows of, can hardly be expected to forbear taking what he needs wherever he can find it.

    American Forests 1897

  • Her husband grew more and more restive under the rising tide of social exactions in dress and deportment; and spent more and more time behind his fast horses, or on the stock-ranch where he raised them.

    What Diantha Did Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897

  • We said we were going to start a stock-ranch, and raise racers, don't you remember? "

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

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