单词 | ranching |
释义 | ranchingn. Originally and chiefly North American. The rearing of cattle on a ranch; stockbreeding. Also: the farming of game, fish, etc., for commercial purposes. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] rearinga1398 nourishing1615 conservation1646 zoosophy1662 culture1744 cultivation1791 zoogeny1826 zootechny1841 stock-keeping1844 ranching1851 conditioning1861 zootechnics1863 zooculture1873 zootrophy1877 animaliculture1879 mothering1922 stockmanship1959 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] cattle-farming1806 stock-keeping1844 cattle ranching1866 stock-farming1866 cattle-rearing1871 boviculture1876 cattle-breeding1877 ranching1882 pecudiculture1885 cow-work1886 1851 Alta Calif. (Electronic text) 14 Dec. The adjacent country is exceedingly level, and is well adapted for ranching purposes. 1863 E. R. Meredith Let. May in Frontier & Midland (1937) XVII. 288/1 The term ‘ranching’ sometimes means farming but is generally applied in this country [sc. Idaho] to taking care of stock. 1882 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 232 Ranching or stock-raising on a colossal scale has already begun. 1936 J. Schafer Soc. Hist. Amer. Agric. iii. 94 The frontier type of cattle raising, however, is of special interest as the parent of the glamorous ranching business of the nineteenth century. 1975 Nature 5 June 449/2 Interest in game ranching of natural animal populations as a food source goes back a long way. 1990 J. Solomon Green Parenting i. 4 Intensive ranching of cattle for cheap meat is one of the reasons why the level of methane gas in the atmosphere is now increasing. 2003 J. Martínez-Garmendia in J. L. Anderson Int. Seafood Trade ii. 34 There have also been experiments with bluefin tuna ranching in Japan. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasranching ranching adj. ΚΠ 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote iv. xix. 233 Fierce Whelps, which shall imitate the raunching paws of their valorous Father. < as lemmas |
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