Crossword clues for rancho
rancho
- ___ Cucamonga
- __ Cucamonga, California
- Western cattle farm
- Place for a gaucho
- Horse farm, in Mexico
- Grazing farm: Sp
- Farm of Southwest
- Cucamonga's front
- Alta California land grant
- --- Palos Verdes, California
- ___ Relaxo (one-time getaway for Marge Simpson)
- ___ Relaxo ("The Simpsons" spa with a Spanglish name)
- ___ Palos Verdes
- ___ Cucamonga, California
- ___ Cordova, California
- __ Cucamonga, Calif
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rancho \Ran"cho\ (r[a^]n"ch[-o]), n.; pl. Ranchos (r[a^]n"ch[=o]z). [Sp., properly, a mess, mess room. Cf. 2d Ranch.]
A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.
A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation. [Mexico & California]
--Bartlett.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US regional English) A simple hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsman or farm workers may lodge at night. 2 (context US regional English) A large graze farm where horses and cattle are raised; distinguished from (term: hacienda), a cultivated farm or plantation.
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Rancho may refer to:
- A type of simple, austere rural dwelling from Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
- Alta California land grants in the 19th century; see Ranchos of California
- Ranchos, Buenos Aires, a town in Argentina
- Rancho High School, a North Las Vegas high school
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Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
- Rancho Los Amigos Scale
- Rancho Veloz, a village in Cuba
- Matra Rancho, an early French leisure activity vehicle
- Rancho San Joaquin Middle School
- A brand of shock absorber, manufactured by Tenneco Automotive
- The name of a character in the Bollywood film 3 Idiots, played by Aamir Khan
Usage examples of "rancho".
Bay had never seen Rancho Dolorosa and was impressed by the huge whitewashed adobe house with its veranda overlooking the Brazos River.
Ranchers from remoter parts of the country appeared: Garnett, from the Ruby rancho, Keast, from the ranch of the same name, Gethings, of the San Pablo, Chattern, of the Bonanza, and others and still others, a score of them--elderly men, for the most part, bearded, slow of speech, deliberate, dressed in broadcloth.
Garnett of the Ruby rancho, Keast from the ranch of the same name, Gethings of the San Pablo, and Chattern of the Bonanza, leaned back in their chairs, their waist-coats unbuttoned, their legs spread wide, laughing--they could not tell why.
There remained in the harness room--besides Vanamee and Presley--Magnus Derrick, Annixter, old Broderson Harran, Garnett from the Ruby rancho, Keast from the ranch of the same name, Gethings of the San Pablo, Chattern of the Bonanza, about a score of others, ranchers from various parts of the county, and, last of all, Dabney, ignored, silent, to whom nobody spoke and who, as yet, had not uttered a word.
At the moment, Vanamee stood breast-deep in the wheat in a solitary corner of the Quien Sabe rancho.
He reined off the riverside trail into stirrup-high rabbitbrush that for them horses to browse as he uncinched his borrowed stock saddle and put it aboard the buckskin, telling the paint he was sorry those Mexican kids back at Rancho Alvera had apparently allowed it to cool off too fast.
Don Lance wanted to build it over in the encinal, with twice as nice a site right here in the rancho.
So gunslicks of either the Mexican or Anglo persuasion, coming up from them canyons after being sent for, could be expecting to catch up with you and Kinipai any time now and a considerable distance north of Rancho Alvera!
Hamiltons, who had a rancho out there on Wood Key and a dock where the runboats could bring in ice and take their fish away.
Vickers had been at El Rancho Mars, he had learned to take Debbie and the three other girls a whole lot more seriously than first impressions had indicated.
He reined off the riverside trail into stirrup-high rabbitbrush that for them horses to browse as he uncinched his borrowed stock saddle and put it aboard the buckskin, telling the paint he was sorry those Mexican kids back at Rancho Alvera had apparently allowed it to cool off too fast.
Ruggles came in, bringing with him two other men in whom Dyke recognised dummy buyers of the Los Muertos and Osterman ranchos.
All during the evening, I made it a point to cultivate the acquaintance of several vaqueros, and learned the names of their master and rancho.
Chaps from chaparejos, lariat from la reata, sombrero, mesquite, latigo, tapadero, bandanna, buckaroo from vaquero, corral, rodeo, remuda, ranch from rancho.
We were at the driving range at Rancho Park, where I was trying, unsuccessfully, to correct his chronic slice.