Ranching
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ranching is a noun meaning The business or activity of operating a ranch, of farming or raising livestock.
Meaning
The business or activity of operating a ranch, of farming or raising livestock.
More Meanings
- A ranch.
- present participle and gerund of ranch
Example Sentences
Ranching is his way of life.
(I am taken to mountains so high you can't breathe; step out of your capsule: zam! you are flat in the aspens. Surrounded in every dimension by solitary ranchings; no sound but the lowing of kine, the flashings of cow-grass.)
At a later stage we may presume that other plants were found useful, such as the artificial fodder plants which began to be cultivated for cattle when the purely pastoral system of husbandry by nomad tribes came to an end, just as cattle ranchings will do in America at no distant date, it is said.
Word Forms
- ranchings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spread, livestock, stockbreeding, pastoral, kennel, herding.
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