Noun : a mink ranch.    From Dictionary.com. 

Her approach to the ranches is announced by singing and fireworks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virgin hair for the Madonna's new wig] Reference

I see those that harvest deer from fenced in ranches as "shooters" more than "hunters".    From Wordnik.com.  [I like many others watch the bucks of Tecomate on Versus channel.] Reference

It seems clear that the current system of keeping women like cattle on ranches is not cutting it.    From Wordnik.com.  [reposted from my site.. « Bound, Not Gagged] Reference

What I heard was that the USDA is putting a halt to BSE testing of private ranches, which is not true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

There were open cattle ranches, which is way worse than horseshit when it's 90 deg out and like Satan's Hostess Cupcake, with a creamy filling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolving or Devolving? From Comebacks to CamelBaks] Reference

Azuaje, of the president's socialist party, said the ranches are all located in Chavez's home state of Barinas, where the president's father is governor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

People must love the notion of ranches, particularly people from the East who have no real idea how vexatious and uncomfortable ranch life can actually be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph Days] Reference

Wyoming has far more sheep than cattle now, and one of the biggest of the ranches is the former Bar T, run under the Larkin name, in connection with the home ranch in Montana.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Free Range] Reference

Off topic but we don't have "ranches" in Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: LINKS FROM ALDI.] Reference

No, most of the time most cowboys worked for little pay doing back breaking work on "ranches" and farms.    From Wordnik.com.  ["What, exactly, do you think cowboys represent, other than the triumph of alpha males?"] Reference

Entities such as ranches, farms, treasury funds and rest houses also fell within the scope of the programme.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

We allowed for some properties with a commercial aspect, such as ranches or vineyards, if they had prominent residences as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Most Expensive Homes In The World 2006] Reference

I think that supplemental feeding certainly can increase average antler size, especially on these "ranches" that are basically deer farms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do Feeders Grow Big Racks?] Reference

Drive up Dry Hollow sometime and check out some of the "ranches" along side the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories] Reference

Nor did they come across any better token of civilized life than two deserted "ranches," or farm-houses, made of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talking Leaves An Indian Story] Reference

Plus, they don't call their ranches "property".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

"Aw, them big ranches make me mad," announced the first speaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

"Oh, they have cooks on ranches, same as they do in lumber camps,".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference

Then in the late 1990s, it turned up in game ranches in Colorado and Montana.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Plague On The Plains] Reference

They stayed in resorts called divorce ranches for what became known as the Reno Cure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sisters Tell Tales From The 'Divorce Ranch'] Reference

Beach houses and dude ranches are great, but at some point even the classics can get stale.    From Wordnik.com.  [SUMMER GUIDE] Reference

We'll hear now from two sisters who lived on one of those ranches: Beth Ward and Robbie McBride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sisters Tell Tales From The 'Divorce Ranch'] Reference

The immense tract is divided into convenient pastures, with stations of ranches every six miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

Most are ranches or bungalows of about 1,500 square feet or drab multiple-unit apartment buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [PSST! WANNA HOT DEAL?] Reference

Cougars have started coming down from the hills to cruise the outlying ranches for chickens or pets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rural Heartbeats] Reference

The land Standard Pacific will buy currently contains active dairy farms, egg ranches and citrus groves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Builder Bets on Revival in California Housing Market] Reference

He had a comfortably middle-class upbringing but left Oklahoma to work on ranches in Texas and South America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Alaskan plane crash victim: Entertainer Will Rogers] Reference

It is a house made sensibly, with wood and brick, with two floors, in a style reminiscent of the colonial ranches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homecoming] Reference

That has led to another problem as animals are moved among auction sites, national parks, reserves and private ranches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Call Of The Not-So-Wild] Reference

Since 1999 they have set the long table at farms or gardens, on mountaintops or in sea caves, on islands or at ranches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Chuda: Food, Glorious Real Food] Reference

Schweitzer, 57, is the leader of a group of survivalist right-wingers now holed up on four ranches outside Jordan, Mont.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Showdown In Montana] Reference

And you get to support small family ranches that, along with family farms, are the backbone of this country's food supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christina Pirello: Is the Early Onset of Puberty in Young Girls Linked to Meat?] Reference

Nobody knows for sure how many Freemen are on the four ranches -- estimates range from 15 to 25, including wives and children.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Showdown In Montana] Reference

Webb did, trading his ballads for the ranches he's always loved, then helping the rest of us face our fear and self-doubt, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caroline Walker: Wyatt Webb's Horses Will Change Your Life If You Let Them] Reference

Nine bull ranches in the region are devoted to producing animals, including cows, bullocks, heifers and calves, for the fiestas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalan town fears bullfighting ban will extinguish its fire bulls] Reference

Then come the cattle ranches and Native American territories of southern Oklahoma, and after that the horse farms of north Texas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Roads] Reference