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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 885 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RANCH , a See also:

term in current usage among the See also:English-speaking peoples for a large See also:farm, particularly one for See also:cattle or See also:horse-breeding. The word came into use in this application in the western states of See also:North See also:America, and was an See also:adaptation of the See also:Spanish-See also:American rancho, herdsmen's huts; in Spanish a gathering of See also:people having their meals in See also:common, a See also:mess.

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