Crossword clues for ranchero
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ranchero \Ran*che"ro\ (r[a^]n*ch[=a]"r[-o]), n.; pl. Rancheros (r[a^]n*ch[=a]"r[=o]z). [Sp.] [Mexico & Western U. S.]
A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.
The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one employed on a ranch," 1826, from American Spanish ranchero, from rancho (see ranch (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US of Mexico English) A rancher or herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho. 2 (context US of Mexico English) The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho.
Wikipedia
Ranchero is the term in the Spanish language for a rancher, meaning a person working on a ranch.
Ranchero may also refer to:
Usage examples of "ranchero".
Early that spring the old ranchero sent Deweese to Lagarto in an attempt to sell Captain Byler a herd of horse stock for the trail.
The old ranchero exchanged glances with his segundo, who said he had to get back to his own chores and drifted off in the tricky sunset light.
Sarafornia is pleasantly homey, a clean, bright, cheery bastion for late risers who prefer to eat their huevos rancheros or salmon and eggs at noon.
Once into Aqua Prieta, he tied his horse in front of a cantina and got a beer and began in his poor Spanish, asking about the ranchero of el pistolero gringo.
He took an outside table at a place facing the beach and had pineapple juice, some poor coffee and a plate of huevos rancheros, taking it slow, letting the sun get hot, the parasailors floating up around the bay like colored balloons.
Mexican rancheros grazed more kinds of critters, from cows to poultry, than most Anglo stockmen.
Loren let it slip that Pitt had a taste for huevos rancheros, so Polly made him enough to feed five ranch hands.
He sat in the diner and ate a big plate of huevos rancheros and drank coffee and watched the gray fields pass beyond the wet glass and in his new boots and shirt he began to feel better than he'd felt in a long time and the weight on his heart had begun to lift and he repeated what his father had once told him, that scared money cant win and a worried man cant love.
A thin, swarthy man was hunched over a plate piled high with beans, chili and huevos rancheros, shoveling the slop in like it was his last meal on earth.
By the time King and I finished the huevos rancheros and the tortillas we'd cut the case of Bud down to a six pack.
They call it La Mesa de los Viejos because Viejos means 'Old Ones' in Spanish and the early Mexican rancheros were the first to notice all the cliff dwellings full of old dead Indians.
You know how much range it takes to raise stock in a land of a tad less rain, and I know from my own cow-herding days that you rancheros could use more because you raise stock Spanish-style.
He'd been worried about free-ranging hogs the night before, knowing how Mexican rancheros grazed more kinds of critters, from cows to poultry, than most Anglo stockmen.
Don't know what you'd call either, seeing the Mex brands look more like kids' scribbles than the letters and numbers real rancheros register.
She turned and retrieved two dishes of huevos rancheros with chorizo and refried beans heavy on the salsa from the oven and placed them on the table.