The-grange
noun
1.
a farm, with its farmhouse and nearby buildings.
2.
Chiefly British. a country house with its various farm buildings, usually constituting the dwelling of a yeoman or gentleman farmer.
3.
the Grange, See under Granger Movement.
4.
Archaic. a barn or granary.
Granger Movement
noun, U.S. History.
1.
a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers’ organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
noun
1.
(mainly Brit) a farm, esp a farmhouse or country house with its various outbuildings
2.
(history) an outlying farmhouse in which a religious establishment or feudal lord stored crops and tithes in kind
3.
(archaic) a granary or barn
noun (in the US)
1.
the Grange, an association of farmers that strongly influenced state legislatures in the late 19th century
2.
a lodge of this association
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