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granger
/ˈɡɹeɪndʒɚ/
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What does granger mean?
noun
- A member of the Grange, National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, an association representing farmers.
- A member of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.
proper noun
- An English surname originating as an occupation for a granger (farm bailiff).
More meanings (10)
proper noun
- A city in Dallas County and Polk County, Iowa; named for railroad official C. T. Granger.
- A town in Allegany County, New York state; named for American politician and Postmaster General Francis Granger.
- A township and unincorporated community in Medina County, Ohio; named for American politician and Postmaster General Gideon Granger, son of Francis Granger.
- A city in Yakima County, Washington; named for Washington Irrigation Company superintendent Walter Granger.
- A town in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
- A census-designated place in Indiana.
- A city in Texas.
- A village in Missouri.
- A settlement in Grand'Anse department, Haiti.
noun
- (obsolete) A farm steward.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɡɹeɪndʒɚ/
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Arriving at Granger, for dinner, I find at the hotel a crest-fallen state of affairs somewhat similar to the glumness of Tacoma.
He had been that all his life—he had fought the railroads in Kansas for fifty years, a Granger, a Farmers’ Alliance man, a “middle-of-the-road” Populist.
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The Granger movement was at that time a strong political factor in the Middle West, and its blind fear of patents and "monopolies" was turned aggressively against the Bell Company.
Granger had under observation a woman by the name of Ann Moore, fifty-eight years of age, who fasted for two years.
Miss Edith Granger avoids this difficulty, as she explains in the Garden Magazine, "by picking off all blooms that have not already lost their petals in the evening, so that in the morning all the open flowers will be new ones. These are cut as early as possible, even while the dew is still upon them, and plunged immediately into deep water."