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Antonyms for ranching
Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : ranch |
Phonetic Transcription : ræntʃ |
Definition of ranching
Origin :- 1808, "country house," from American Spanish rancho "small farm, group of farm huts," from Spanish rancho "mess-room," originally, "group of people who eat together," from ranchear "to lodge or station," from Old French ranger "install in position," from rang "row, line" (see rank (n.)).
- Sense of "large stock-farm and herding establishment" is from 1831. Of houses, "single-story, split-level" (adj.) from 1950; as a noun from 1960. Ranch-house attested from 1862.
- As in animal husbandry : noun breeding and caring for farm animals
- As in farming : noun producing crops, raising animals
- As in farm : verb produce crops, raise animals
- A bit of ranching and 39 my work here in the shop keeps me busy enough.
- Extract from : « The Spoilers of the Valley » by Robert Watson
- Who, after all, could blame him for fathering thoughts that ranching was not all it was supposed to be?
- Extract from : « The Spoilers of the Valley » by Robert Watson
- His drooping spirit revived; she was getting tired of ranching.
- Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
- Perhaps you will find it easier after a week or two of ranching.
- Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
- "Ranching and hunting was no bed of roses," some one who knew him at that time has said.
- Extract from : « American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt » by Edward Stratemeyer
- In his ranching days, that training with his fists stood him in good stead.
- Extract from : « Theodore Roosevelt and His Times » by Harold Howland
- While allied by every tie of blood to the ranching interests, he had never been identified with them.
- Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris
- Then, when I had money enough, I put it into land, and went to ranching.
- Extract from : « Desert Conquest » by A. M. Chisholm
- Of these, the larger proportion were engaged in ranching and stock-raising.
- Extract from : « Buckskin Mose » by Buckskin Mose
- In addition to ranching, he also engaged extensively in cattle-raising.
- Extract from : « Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 » by Harris Newmark
Synonyms for ranching
- agriculture
- agronomics
- agronomy
- animal culture
- animal raising
- animal rearing
- breeding
- bring under cultivation
- crop
- crop-raising
- cultivate
- cultivation
- culture
- direct
- dress
- farming
- feeding
- fertilizing
- garden
- gardening
- geoponics
- gleaning
- graze
- grazing
- grow
- growing
- harrow
- harvest
- harvesting
- homestead
- homesteading
- husband
- hydroponics
- landscape
- landscaping
- livestock farming
- look after
- operate
- operating
- pasturage
- pasture
- plant
- plow
- production
- ranch
- ranching
- reap
- reaping
- run
- seed
- seeding
- share-cropping
- soil culture
- sow
- stock raising
- subdue
- superintend
- tend
- threshing
- till
- till the soil
- tillage
- work
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