ranchstead

plural ranchsteads · alternative ranch-stead

1. A plot of ranchland and the buildings upon it; a ranchhouse and its adjacent outbuildings.

   Camp was a rambling old ranch-stead, comfortable bed and running water, meals cooked in an outdoor kitchen, taken outside on the porch.

   2025, Craig Boddington, 50 Great Stalks: Hunting the World's Greatest Game Up Close

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   At the crest stood Phil Grimes's tractor and lowboy trailer, and next to them the LeTourneau, and then down low on the slope he saw a ranchstead—a metal building, old barn, rock silo, outbuildings, and a house. Just past the house lay the river, curled against the base of the cliffs. He geared down and took a hard right toward the ranchstead.

   2014, John Keeble, Broken Ground, page 90