1885 Oct. 331/1 The sack was let down..marked with the ranch-mark, the weight, the grade, and was ready for the freighters and a market.
1903 A. M. Binstead iv. 110 Sleep, someone, whose name and ranchmarks I have forgotten, once observed, is much overrated.
1997 C. E. Mulford xiv. 139 They wouldn't want to brand any mavericks, not with th' ranch mark.