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GRANGE

Volume 10 · 67 words · 1823 Edition

an ancient term for a barn or place wherein to lay up and thresh corn. The word is formed of the Latin granae: or of granaum, "grain, corn," &c. Hence also granger or grangier, "a grange-keeper or farmer."

Grange is also used, in a more extensive sense, for a whole farm, with all the appendages of stables for horses, stalls for cattle, &c. and for an inn.