ranger

plural rangers

1. One who ranges; a rover.
   1. A roving robber; one who seeks plunder.
2. A keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region (generally of wilderness) to protect the area or enforce the law.
3. obsoleteThat which separates or arranges; a sieve.

   The tamis raunger.

   1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC

4. A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
5. governmentIn some modern armies, an elite soldier, similar to special forces but often operating in larger units.
6. roleplaying gamesliteratureA warrior character, often with wilderness and stealth skill, who typically travels the countryside.
7. roleplaying gamesA character skilled in the use of ranged weapons.

present singular third person rangers · participle present rangering · participle past rangered · past rangered

1. raretransitiveTo work as a ranger.

   Just like down in Texas when I was rangering, you just keep turning over rocks […]

   1993, Robert Kammen, Rattlers Roost, page 59

   1 more example

   He saw men long dead whom he had rangered with, saw Pedro Flores and Pea Eye and a redheaded whore he had taken up with for a month in his riverboating days.

   2011, Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

plural Rangers

1. hobbiesA player on any of various teams called Rangers, such as the Texas Rangers (in baseball) or the New York Rangers (in ice hockey).

1. A surname.