granger

plural grangers

1. USA member of the Grange, National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, an association representing farmers.
2. obsoleteA farm steward.

plural Grangers · alternative Grainger

1. countableuncountableAn English surname originating as an occupation for a granger (farm bailiff).
2. A place in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA city in Dallas County and Polk County, Iowa; named for railroad official C. T. Granger.
   2. countableuncountableA town in Allegany County, New York state; named for American politician and Postmaster General Francis Granger.
   3. countableuncountableA township and unincorporated community in Medina County, Ohio; named for American politician and Postmaster General Gideon Granger, son of Francis Granger.
   4. countableuncountableA city in Yakima County, Washington; named for Washington Irrigation Company superintendent Walter Granger.
   5. countableuncountableA town in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.

plural Grangers

1. USA member of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.First known use late 1860s or 1870s

   From the North, South, East, and West the Grangers came, on horseback and in every conceivable style of vehicle.

   1873, Stephe R. Smith, Grains for the Grangers, Discussing All Points Bearing Upon the Farmers' Movement for the Emancipation of White Slaves from the Slave-Power of Monopoly, Union Publishing Company, page 237

1. A locale in the United States; named for the organization.
   1. A census-designated place in Indiana.
   2. A city in Texas.
   3. A village in Missouri.

1. A settlement in Grand'Anse department, Haiti.