Grange
[greɪn(d)ʒ] or [ɡrendʒ]
Definition
(n.) A building for storing grain; a granary.
(n.) A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes.
(n.) A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited.
(n.) A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors.
(n.) An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, aud 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.
Editor: Randolph
Definition
n. a farm-house with its stables and other buildings: (Milt.) a granary: (U.S.) a lodge of the order of 'Patrons of Husbandry.'—n. Gran′ger a member of a farmer's grange.—adj. pertaining to such.
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Examples
- About a mile west from where I had been stopping a road comes up from the southeast, joining that from La Grange to Memphis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You will soon be tired of staying at the Grange. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And it is a shame that her uncle should have run away and shut up the Grange just now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I will speak to Mrs Dengelton before I leave the Grange. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He now inferred that she had asked her uncle to invite Will to the Grange; and she felt it impossible at that moment to enter into any explanation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- On the 21st he had detached Colonel Hatch with one regiment to destroy the railroad between Columbus and Macon and then return to La Grange. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Various feelings wrought in him the determination after all to go to the Grange to-day as if nothing new had happened. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Of course Roylands Grange is now yours. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- After that, Mr. Brooke remembered that there was a packet which he had omitted to send off from the Grange, and he bade everybody hurriedly good-by. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To give me a true account of all that happened at the Abbey Grange last night--a TRUE account, mind you, with nothing added and nothing taken off. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- So it ended by my accepting, and I went down to Chiltern Grange, about six miles from Farnham. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Compare my grange with his palace, if you please. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Meanwhile, Maurice, who had been thinking over matters, came to the conclusion that he would ask Caliphronas to stay at the Grange for a few days. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And I should like to be at the Grange a little while with my uncle, and go about in all the old walks and among the people in the village. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Meanwhile the object of this soliloquy was striding up the avenue of the Grange at a rapid pace, and whistling gayly, out of sheer light-heartedness. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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