ranch• He and a Boston friend bought a ranch in Laramie and raised sheep, then steer, on the open range.• We lived first on a ranch.• a four-bedroom ranch• a cattle ranch• Robert Daley settled the property in 1869, first as a horse and cattle ranch and then as a dairyoperation.• We saw small towns and huge cities, chicken farms and horse ranches.• I sail past a little development of off-the-shelfranch homes.• The bloodysiege of the ranchcomplex in Waco has already left at least six police and cult members dead.• Over the years, the ranchshrank.
Originranch
(1800-1900)Mexican Spanishrancho, from Spanish, “camp, small building, small farm”, from Frenchranger“to put in a row”