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ranching town
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a town largely dependent on the cattle business; a shipping point for cattle.
See: cowtown
Quotations
1897
The rather distressing situation of the woman and children--one a babe in arms--appealed at once to the whole-souled munificence of the "ranching town."