stump ranch

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noun

Canadian informal (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees

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Words nearby stump ranch

stumper, stump farm, stump foot, stump-jump plough, stumpknocker, stump ranch, stump speech, stumpsucker, stump up, stumpwork, stumpy

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Example sentences from the Web for stump ranch

They are model citizens, the kind of people whose lives might be used as exemplary stories by a politician in a stump speech.
The 2014 Novel of the Year|Nathaniel Rich|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
My dad had worked for a while as a ranch hand, and his “Open Road” was a remnant of those days.
My Love Letter to the Stetson|Mark McKinnon|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She is a waitress, he helps run the family ranch, and something more criminal.
How Will They End ‘The Affair’? Showtime’s Adultery Drama Defies Predictability|Tim Teeman|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Plus “The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth/And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath”?
Keep Christmas Commercialized!|P. J. O’Rourke|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Of all the people to look up to for a back-to-nature stance, why the monster from Spahn Ranch?
Mrs. Manson, Hometown Antihero|Justin Glawe|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sometimes he did, although when I saw the worst coming I generally managed to get him over to the ranch.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
For hours the gray man would sit on a tombstone, while Black Sheep read epitaphs, and then with a sigh would stump home again.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
The cigar stump held firmly between his teeth, he stood on the rug before the hearth, facing the door.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
But, just as they were piling some more leaves in the hollow stump, they heard many voices of men shouting in the woods.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
Of course you would have all the riding you wanted, but there are no round-ups worth speaking of on a ranch the size of Lumalitas.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton

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