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  • noun Plural form of ranchman.

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Examples

  • Among the children of the ranchmen was a thirteen-year-old boy.

    Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • Of course, the dry goods are only such as ranchmen and farmers 'wives need.

    Fred Fearnot's New Ranch and How He and Terry Managed It Hal Standish

  • The ranchmen are two Welshmen, Evans and Edwards, each with a wife and family.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • But so soon as there was a new demand for cotton, for rubber, for pork, wheat, rice and the like, a multitude of obliging intermediaries appeared between the negro cotton growers in America, the Sudanese cotton growers, the local folk who went into the largely abandoned rubber plantations to collect rubber again, the wheat farmers and swineherds and ranchmen, and set themselves to collect and handle the produce for the

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • They had seen no ranches or ranchmen who might advise them on the bovine behavior they were encountering.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • They had seen no ranches or ranchmen who might advise them on the bovine behavior they were encountering.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • They had seen no ranches or ranchmen who might advise them on the bovine behavior they were encountering.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • They had seen no ranches or ranchmen who might advise them on the bovine behavior they were encountering.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • The three ranchmen rode back to headquarters, bewildered as to what they must do next.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • Billy and Jess, put in the few months they spent together by indulging in a hundred lawless raids—sometimes committing depredations in Mexico and fleeing across the Rio Grande into Texas or New Mexico, and vice versa, until hundreds of ranchmen, in both republics were on the look out for them, and in many conflicts, on either side of the river, they escaped capture, and consequent certain death, almost by miracle.

    The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid Garrett, Pat F 1954

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