GRANGE
\ɡɹˈe͡ɪnd͡ʒ], \ɡɹˈeɪndʒ], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈeɪ_n_dʒ]\
Definitions of GRANGE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes.
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A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited.
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A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors.
By Oddity Software
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A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes.
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A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited.
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A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors.
By Noah Webster.
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A farm with its buildings, etc.; Grange, a national association of farmers; a local lodge of the order.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A granary; the farming establishment and granary attached to a religious house, where, in addition to their own crops, the grain paid as rent and tithes was stored; the name was also given to the farm buildings and granary of feudal lord, the residence of his chief bailiff; a grange, in its original signification, meant a farmhouse of a monastery, from which it was always at some little distance, and one of the monks was usually appointed to inspect the accounts of the farm-he was called the prior of the grange: in England, a farm, with the dwelling house, stables, byres, barns, etc.; particularly, a house or farm at a distance from other houses or villages; the dwelling of a yeoman or gentleman-farmer; "A grange implies some on particular house immediately inferior in rank to a hall, situated at a small distance from the town or village from which it takes its name, as Hornby Grange, Balckwell Grange, and is in the neighborhood simply called called the Grange."-Ritson: a combination, society, or lodge of farmers for the purpose or promoting the interests of agriculture, more especially for abolishing the restraints and burdens imposed on it by the commercial classes, the railroad and canal companies, etc., and for doing away with the middlemen or agents intervening between the producer and the consumer; granges originated in the great agricultural region on the Mississippi, and still prevail most generally there.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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