ranch hand

collocation in English

meaningsofranchandhand

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ranch
noun[C]
uk
/rɑːntʃ/us
/ræntʃ/
a very large farm on which animals are kept, especially in North and ...
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hand
noun
uk
/hænd/us
/hænd/
the part of the body at the end of the arm that is used for holding, moving, touching, and ...
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(Definition ofranchandhandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He was employed as aranchhandand as a teacher.
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The book detailed her relationship with a conservativeranchhandand how it led her to rethink some of her feminist beliefs.
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Government officials took reporters' notes from their desks and warned a radio reporter not to play a recorded interview with theranchhand.
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It portrayed the lives of the ranch's owner, his son, a femaleranchhand, and four teenage summer employees.
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Before becoming a science fiction writer, she worked as a horse trainer,ranchhand, tourism industry employee, guide and environmental lawyer.
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He actually earned about $11,000 a year as aranchhand.
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The people who are employees of the rancher and involved in handling livestock are called a number of terms, including "cowhand", "ranchhand," and "cowboy".
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During summer vacations, he delivered magazines and sold newspapers, and worked as a bellhop,ranchhand, and railroad laborer.
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As a young man, he was a generalranchhand.
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He worked as aranchhand, miner and driver for a mining company.
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The military acted quickly and efficiently to recover the debris after its existence was reported by aranchhand.
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He would remain aranchhandand rancher for the rest of his working life.
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Baldrige worked during his boyhood as aranchhandand earned several awards as a professional team roper on the rodeo circuit.
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Gene's role changed almost weekly from rancher, toranchhand, to sheriff, to border agent, etc.
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The home was the headquarters for a ranch that included a two-story bunkhouse for the ranch hands.
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Betsy and the ranch hands had a sort of brothersister relationship.
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Members of the tribe found employment as ranch hands.
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She often helped ranch hands with machinery, and once single-handedly built a sidewalk to help her father rent a building.
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The steeply pitched roof, an oddity on the northern plains, created an upstairs sleeping loft for the ranch hands.
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They work as ranch hands, day laborers, and domestic servants.
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