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fruit ranch †
Esp. B.C.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a fruit farm; a commercial orchard.
See: ranch ((1)) ((n.))(def. 2c)
Quotations
1911
"Yes, you are quite right about that, especially when a person has to be man and woman both on a fruit-ranch...."
1953
The Okanagan with its pleasant little towns and its fruit ranches--everything is a ranch in B.C. . . . constitutes a good big stretch of settled countryside.