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▪ I. ranger, n.1|ˈreɪndʒə(r)|
Also 5–7 raunger, (5 -ier), 7 randg-, rainger.
[f. range v.1 + -er1.]
One who or that which ranges, in senses of the vb.
1. a. A rover, wanderer; † a rake. Also spec. = bush-ranger.
1593Breton in Phœnix Nest (Grosart) I. 6/1 The Rookes, no raungers out of raie The Pawnes, the pages [etc.]. 1599Broughton's Let. v. 17 Accusing his father..for an whoremaster and..a raunger. 1636Heywood Love's Mistr. Epil. Wks. 1874 V. 88 Mercury shall flie..Upon your errands, prove your happy ranger. a1711Ken Hymnarium Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 119 The Rangers in the wild just God design'd [etc.]. 1818Keats Endym. iv. 274 I've been a ranger In search of pleasure throughout every clime. 1840Sydney Herald 9 Sept. 2/3 It seems as though the constabulary there, are either too weak-handed or hearted!—for the rangers are still there, and at large. 1862Mudgee (N.S.W.) Liberal 28 Nov. 2/6 Down on his knees pops our repentant ranger, and earnestly pleads for mercy for the sake of his wife and babes. 1865Neale Hymns Parad. 28 On this sea my bark, poor ranger, Is from pirates sore in danger. 1918C. Fetherstonhaugh After Many Days 364 The rangers then went on to the store... ‘We have come to bail you up, young man.’
b. Applied spec. to certain animals (see quots.).
1686R. Brome Gentl. Recreation ii. 33/1 Four or five Couple of Spaniels that are good Rangers. 1832Webster, Ranger, a dog that beats the ground. 1855Marryat Mountains & Molehills xi, I had two horses; one was an old grey ‘Texian Ranger’. 1867F. Francis Angling x. (1880) 343 Following up the military lead, we come to the Rangers [a kind of salmon-flies]. 1884Goode Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 58 The Harbor Seal. Phoca vitulina. The young are there [Newfoundland] also called ‘Rangers’. 1887N. & Q. 7th Ser. IV. 278 The Sp. besugo, a kind of sea-bream, is called in English ranger. 1890H. H. Dogs for Gun iii. iii. 103, I took him [a pointer] out with five high rangers in a 200 acre field.
attrib.1895Outing (U.S.) XXVII. 214/2 We..secured a fine young ranger seal.
c. A wave of unusual height and force.
1891Pall Mall G. 31 Aug. 4/3 The character of the great wave is a mystery... The sailors declared that it was a not unfamiliar phenomenon, and called it ‘a ranger’.
2. a. A forest officer, a gamekeeper. Subsequently, the official title of the keepers of the royal parks. Now esp., a warden of a park or resort.
1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 318/1 Almaner and singuler Offices of Foresters and Raungers of oure said Forestes. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Sept. 159 [Wolves] walk not widely, as they were woont, For fear of raungers, and the great hoont. 1632High Commission Cases (Camden) 288 The lopps and topps were all worth but 46s, and he agreed with the Ranger of the Forrest for them. 1697Dryden æneid vii. 486 Tyrrheus chief ranger to the Latian King. 1788H. Walpole Reminisc. 131 We afterwards recollected that lord Bute was ranger of the park. 1813Scott Rokeby iii. iv, He heard the rangers' loud halloo, Beating each cover..As if to start the sylvan game. 1895Whitaker's Almanack 169/2 St. James's, Green, and Hyde Parks—Ranger, H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge. 1938R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 40 The rangers had spotted them spearing the trout. 1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 242 As the years went on, the rangers and other forest officers began to help with the good work [of map revision]... One name..was ‘Pomas Creek’, submitted by Ranger Jim McKenzie. 1966Weekly News (N.Z.) 3 Aug. 7/4 Fiordland's chief ranger..emphasises that the authority's huts are ‘spartan’. 1970Cape Times 28 Oct. 3/2 (heading) Rangers wanted. Ibid., the Simonstown Town Council is inviting applications from people to act as beach rangers during the summer season at R20 a week. 1973Sun-Herald (Sydney) 26 Aug. 85/3 It is no easy job being a national park ranger. 1976J. van de Wetering Tumbleweed xiii. 132 He became a ranger on a nature reserve. 1978Nature 26 Jan. 343/1 According to accounts of the rangers at Volcan Poas National Park, bushes at the high plateau level, 300–500 m. above the lake, were set on fire.
b. orig. U.S. An officer who rounds up straying domestic animals or livestock.
1744Pennsylvania Gaz. 15 Nov. 3/3 Any Person or Persons, who have lost one or more of the following Strays, by applying to William Hartley, of Charles Town, Chief-Ranger for Chester County,..may be informed where to find them. 1796in G. Imlay Topogr. Descr. W. Territory N. Amer. (1797) 535 [The county court] shall also have power to appoint one register and ranger for the county, who shall hold their offices during good behaviour. 1828Cherokee Phoenix (New Echota, Georgia) 27 Mar. 1/2 The ranger shall be entitled to one dollar for every horse so posted. 1886Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. II. 304/1 In Mississippi the coroner is also the county ranger, and performs the duties of that office. 1886[see pound-keeper]. 1926A. Webb Miss Peters' Special 50 The ranger's got the cow.
3. a. pl. A body of mounted troops, or other armed men, employed in ranging over a tract of country. Also in sing.
Chiefly U.S.; in the British Army the title is given to one regular regiment, the Connaught Rangers.
1670Massachusetts Hist. Soc. Coll. (1800) VI. 211, [I] saw one of captain Willet's rangers coming on post on horseback. 1692Calendar Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 38 [Petition of Left David Straughan and] ‘eight Rangers’ [for pay for services]. 1713Colonial Rec. Carolina (1886) II. 32, I have ordered all our Rangers..to march that way. 1733Colonial Rec. Georgia (1905) III. 90 Captain Macpherson with fifteen of the Rangers..cover'd and protected the new Settlers. 1742State Prov. Georgia (1897) 15 For the defense of the colony now, it is necessary to have..rangers who can ride the woods. 1789in O. Browning Despatches from Paris (1910) II. 169 The strongest proof is given of His disinterestedness by His proposing to resign the Office of Ranger (Capitainerie) of different Districts. 1796Stedman Surinam I. iv. 81 The rangers in Virginia, who were sent out against the Cherokee Indians. 1835W. Irving Tour on Prairies ii. in Crayon Misc. (1863) 22 We learnt that a company of mounted rangers, or rifle⁓men, had departed but three days previous. 1882H. De Windt Equator 34 The ‘Sarawak Rangers’..are recruited from Malays and Dyaks. 1906Westm. Gaz. 2 June 8/3 Governor Ysabel, of the Mexican province of Senora [sic],..will be met there by a force of American rangers from Bisbee... It is thought that the arrival of the Rangers from Bisbee will restore order. 1909‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xvi. 257 Standifer himself had served the commonwealth as Indian fighter, soldier, ranger, and legislator.
b. Chiefly U.S. A member of an élite American military unit established in 1941 for close combat and raiding; = commando 3 a. Also attrib.
1942N.Y. Times 20 Aug. 1/5 The first American troops to receive a baptism of fire in Europe in this war were the men of the United States Ranger Battalion who fought in the Dieppe raid today. It was the first time the name Rangers had appeared in a war communiqué anywhere. 1942Newsweek 31 Aug. 21/3 Mention in last week's communiqués of a detachment of a ‘United States Ranger battalion’ that had taken part in the Dieppe raid was the first disclosure of the existence of these Commando-type American troops... All Rangers are volunteers, they reported. Ibid. 22/1 The Rangers were named after Rogers's Rangers, the rough and crafty Indian fighters of colonial days who battled near the Canadian border. 1961B. Fergusson Watery Maze vii. 180 The Commandos had a number of Rangers, their American counterparts, attached to them for experience. 1976R. Moore Dubai ii. 22 A newly organized unit.., the U.S. Army Special Forces..made up of soldiers who were paratroopers, rangers, and combat men from World War II.
4. One who sets in order. rare—1.
1611Bible 1 Chron. xii. 33 marg., Rangers of battell.
5. In full now Ranger Guide. A member of the Girl Guides Association who is in the section for older girls, aged between 14 and (usually) 18. Ranger Guider, a leader of a unit of Ranger Guides. Cf. guide n. 2 d.
1921G. I. J. Potts Girl Guide Badges 2 The Service Star for Guiders and Rangers is worn on a red cloth ground. 1929Second Bk. of Ranger Games 72 This is a favourite game with Rangers. 1944,1969[see Guider s.v. guide n. 2 d]. 1969[see guide n. 2 d]. 1976Ulverston (Cumbria) News 3 Dec. 1/4 She has kept up her membership of the Ranger Guides and still finds time for some needlework. 1977National Trust Spring 21/3 The Ranger Guides of S.E. England were invited to steward, usher and sell programmes. Ibid. 21/4 The smartness, efficiency and good humour of the Rangers..evoked most favourable comment. 1977Daily Tel. 2 June 18 Early photographs showing the Queen, Princess Margaret and other members of the Royal family as Brownies, Guides or Rangers will be among the exhibits. Ibid., The exhibition..also marks the diamond jubilee of the Ranger Guide section. 1977Guider July 319/2 An enthusiastic Ranger Guider will invite older Guides to some of the interesting Ranger activities as ‘tasters’.
▪ II. † ˈranger, n.2 Obs.
[f. range v.2]
A sieve.
1485in Kitchin Rolls St. Swithin's 383, j Ranger. 1498Ibid. 387 In j Fyne Ranger empto, x d. In iiij Cours Rangers emptis, xviij d. 1601Holland Pliny II. 100 Rushes so big, that they will serue to make sieues, rangers, and vans.
▪ III. ‖ ranger, v.1|rɑ̃ʒe|
[a. F. se ranger (also used) to settle down.]
refl. To settle down. Cf. rangé a. 2.
Used only in the infinitive form.
1854Thackeray Newcomes I. xxxii. 320 It is high time that Kew should ranger himself... I am sure he will make the best husband..in England. 1883W. James Let. 2 May in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) I. 753 The time had come that I should ranger myself. 1924J. Buchan Three Hostages xiii. 182, I heard somewhere you were goin' to be married... What do you call it—ranger yourself? 1979A. Buchan Scrap Screen iii. 40 He desired to se ranger himself, having sown his wild oats.
▪ IV. ranger, v.2|ˈreɪndʒə(r)|
[f. ranger n.1]
intr. To be a ranger.
1909‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xvi. 263 We fought Kiowas, drove cattle, and rangered side by side nearly all over Texas. 1979P. L. Sandberg Stubb's Run ii. 9 He had rangered in the Sawcut for seventeen years. |