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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 885 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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RANCH , a

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TERM

term in current usage among the

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ENGLISH

English-speaking peoples for a large

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FARM

farm, particularly one for

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CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

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HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse-breeding . The word came into use in this application in the western states of

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AMERICA

America, and was an

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ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of the

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SPANISH

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AMERICAN

American rancho, herdsmen's huts; in Spanish a gathering of

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PEOPLE

people having their meals in

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COMMON

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MESS (an adaptation of O. Fr. mes, mod. mets; Ital. messo; derived from the Late Lat. missum, past participle of mittere " to send or place in position ")

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