Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Chiefly Upper Midwest A farmer.
- noun Chiefly Northeastern US A member of the Grange.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A farm-steward or -bailiff.
- noun A member of a farmers' grange for the advancement of the interests of agriculture. See
grange , n., 4. - noun A farmer; a countryman. [Humorous, U.S.]
- Of or pertaining to a grange or to grangers; caused or promoted by grangers: as, the granger movement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A farm steward.
- noun United States A member of a grange.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A member of the
Grange , National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, an association representing farmers. - noun obsolete A
farm steward .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who operates a farm
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Examples
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In the forest the woodchopper comes first; on the fertile prairies the granger is the pioneer; but on the long, stretching uplands of the far West it is the men who guard and follow the horned herds that prepare the way for the settlers who come after.
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The "granger" element, for instance, would cut off the holder of "watered stock" with a shilling.
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