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plural ranchos or ranchoes
(US, regional) A simple hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm workers may lodge at night. examples
(US, regional) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation. quotations examples
The nearest house, they told us, was a rancho, or cattle-farm, about three miles off.
1840, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast