"ranching" meaning in All languages combined

See ranching on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: ranchings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} ranching (countable and uncountable, plural ranchings)
  1. The business or activity of operating a ranch, of farming or raising livestock. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-ranching-en-noun-3Cktl-UO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 28 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 58 24 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 68 18 14
  2. A ranch. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-ranching-en-noun-r3Spn~b5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ocean ranching

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} ranching
  1. present participle and gerund of ranch Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: ranch
    Sense id: en-ranching-en-verb-ZQSVwuwq

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Ranching is his way of life.",
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        {
          "ref": "1889, an article on The Migrations of Plants by de Candolle, Stallybrass, Hooker and Wallace, published in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume 169, page 465",
          "text": "At a later stage we may presume that other plants were found useful, such as the artificial fodder plants which began to be cultivated for cattle when the purely pastoral system of husbandry by nomad tribes came to an end, just as cattle ranchings will do in America at no distant date, it is said."
        },
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          "ref": "1938-1968, published in 2001 in When prophecy still had a voice: the letters of Thomas Merton & Robert Lax, edited by Arthur W. Biddle, page 401",
          "text": "(I am taken to mountains so high you can't breathe; step out of your capsule: zam! you are flat in the aspens. Surrounded in every dimension by solitary ranchings; no sound but the lowing of kine, the flashings of cow-grass.)"
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