Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of ranger or keeper of a forest or park.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving The office of the keeper of a forest or park.
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- noun The office of the
keeper of aforest orpark .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The park, too, is well stocked with deer, and its rangership is confided to the duke.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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After some of the usual delays of justice, she had the mortification of being beaten, and ultimately resigned the rangership.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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She rejected Ralegh's solicitation of the rangership of the New
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In a second codicil (dated February 1, 1712) the first codicil is revoked, and the bequest is augmented to 5000l., the rangership, lodge, and household furniture of Bushey Park, and the manor of Apscourt, for her life.
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The Earl of Gainsborough was rejected, not only from the lieutenancy of Hampshire, but also from the government of Portsmouth and the rangership of the New Forest, two places for which he had, only a few months before, given five thousand pounds.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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"Qu'arrivait-il?" continued Prony; "the rogue who gave the guess answer was soon found cutting down and selling quantities of the trees, and Buonaparte had to take the rangership from him, and reinstate the honest hesitater."
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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The condition upon which she made this bequest was that neither he nor his heirs should take any place or pension from any government, except the rangership of Windsor Park.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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Hill: Princess Emily, who succeeded my brother in the rangership of Richmond Park, has imitated her brother William's unpopularity, and disobliged the whole country, by refusal of tickets and liberties, that had always been allowed.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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Anne had bestowed the rangership of Richmond New Park on her relations the Hydes for three lives, one of which was expired.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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The grant at the Pall-Mall, the rangership, &c. for want of more certain knowledge, may be called 10,000, _l_.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706
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