Something reminded me of the word ranch. Decided to look up the etymology, since it doesn’t sound like other terms for land. It comes from the French military se ranger, meaning to pitch camp or set up a location, related to arrange.
Range, of course, has dozens of meanings in math, biology and surveying. The open ranges of the west were surveyed with a grid of townships and ranges. The range lines divided the open range into ranches.
Ford used Ranchero for its car-based pickup in 1957, then used Ranger for one trim level of Edsel in 1958. Ranchero moved to Falcon then Fairlane, remaining in ute form. Ranger went on to serve for 60 years on various pickups, especially the popular compact … but the Ranger wasn’t a ute, so it wasn’t the successor to the Ranchero. (Fortunately Ford never made an Edsel version of the ute, which would have been a Ranger and a Ranchero at the same time. Some customizers have tried it.)
Outside of commercial branding, rangers stayed in uniform. Rangers are a type of infantry, and Texas Rangers enforced the law on Texas Ranchers who misused brands.
Learned from last year’s medieval peasant reading: Farm was originally the annual rent paid by the peasants to hold their shared ranch. When a range was at farm it was rented or leased.
Farm, range and ranch were all verbs that pitched camp and became nouns.
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