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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grange
noun
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▪ On our estate were granges, barns, a mill, carp ponds, lush fields and fertile meadows.
▪ The description of the grange is lacking any energy as is Mariana.
▪ The first lines of Tennyson's poem reflect the neglect of the grange.
▪ The grooms and novices led away the horses, and wheeled away the light carriage into the grange court for housing.
▪ Um, speaking about projects, the uh grange park there, that proposed park at the grange building there.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grange

Grange \Grange\, n. [F. grange barn, LL. granea, from L. granum grain. See Grain a kernel.]

  1. A building for storing grain; a granary. [Obs.]
    --Milton.

  2. A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes.

    And eke an officer out for to ride, To see her granges and her bernes wide.
    --Chaucer.

    Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking maid.
    --Tennyson.

  3. A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited. [Obs.]

  4. A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors.

  5. An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, and particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867. [U. S.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grange

"small farm," mid-15c.; mid-13c. in place names (and compare granger), from Anglo-French graunge, Old French grange "barn, granary; farmstead, farm house" (12c.), from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin granica "barn or shed for keeping grain," from Latin granum "grain" (see corn (n.1)). Sense evolved to "outlying farm" (late 14c.), then "country house" (1550s). Meaning "local lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry" (a U.S. agricultural interest promotion organization) is from 1867.

Wiktionary
grange

n. 1 (context British English) A farm, especially that of a gentleman farmer. 2 outlying land belonging to a monastery. 3 (context archaic English) A granary.

WordNet
grange

n. an outlying farm

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Grange

Grange may refer to:

Grange (Middlesex cricketer)

Grange (dates unknown) was an English professional cricketer who made 9 known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1789 to 1792.

Usage examples of "grange".

Leaning on the crumbling stone wall of a temple orchard, looking past the sloping tile roofs of Grange Head, Maia lifted her gaze to watch low clouds briefly occult a brightly speckled, placid sea, its green shoals aflicker with silver schools of fish and the flapping shadows of hovering swoop-birds.

After that, the family took a light breakfast in the parlour, during which John repeated his suggestion that Mary visit Canons Grange with him.

Just before the path reached Cob End, another track turned off and ran along the top of the finger, and then dropped down the slope with it, through a paddock, and into the stableyard of Canons Grange.

Unlike Pinnacles, Canons grange had not been built all of a piece, but had grown over a period of centuries by a process of accretion.

Its core was a stone-built hall-house which had been erected for the Austin Canons of Woodham Abbey to house the bailey of their grange.

Mary had no doubt that this was the present owner of Canons Grange, for he still bore a strong resemblance to the reserved, intense boy.

Matthew caught the arrow in mid-flight, through the palm of his left hand, and the King gave him Canons Grange and the estate as a reward, at a peppercorn rent of one arrow every seventh year!

Later that day, a message was sent to Canons Grange inviting the Hartwells to dine and spend the next afternoon at Pinnacles, so that the men might discuss the problem of the refugees in the Forest.

Mary made a polite but noncommittal response, and turned to watch the arrival, not of the expected Wharton wagon, but of a particularly well-built haycart from Canons Grange, lined with bales of straw and drawn by a pair of great horses which arched their necks, raised and lowered their great feathered feet and flourished their ribboned tails with all the pride of their warhorse ancestry.

Slowly, reluctantly, the visitors rode away, looking back over their shoulders as they went, and the beleaguered garrison of Canons Grange watched them out of sight.

As in most homes, the day at Canons Grange began with the household assembling for prayers and a Bible reading.

It was customary at Canons Grange for the footmen to bring in and serve each course, and then withdraw from the room until Mr Hartwell rang a small handbell to summon them to take out the remains and bring in the next course.

The Needlewood Granges lie at the western foot of the mountain, near Loon Lake.

The Needlewood Granges were a minor holding in decline: They would suit his purposes well.

He was heir to the ailing Baron Onslow, who lived at Nuttall Grange a mere five or six miles away.