▪ I. grange, n.
(greɪndʒ)
Forms: 4–7 graunge, (4–5 gronge, 5 grawnge, 6 grandge, graynge, granege), 4– grange.
[a. AF. graunge (F. grange):—med.L. grānea, grānica f. grān-um grain n.1]
1. A repository for grain; a granary, barn. arch.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 4689 Garners and Granges fild [he] wit sede. c 1384 Chaucer H. Fame ii. 190 And eke of loves mo eschaunges Than ever cornes were in graunges. 1489 Caxton Faytes of A. iv. ix. 253 A man..brought to losse and domage by fortune of fyre in his hous or in his grange. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xviii. 25 All these cariagis were sette in voyde granges and barnes. 1634 Milton Comus 175 When, for their teeming flocks and granges full, In wanton dance they [unlettered hinds] praise the bounteous Pan. 1853 Turner Dom. Archit. II. 119 The grange was equivalent to our modern barn, where the corn is placed before it is thrashed. 1853 M. Arnold Scholar-Gipsy xiii, And thou hast climb'd the hill..Then sought thy straw in some sequester'd grange. 1873 Hale In His Name i. 3 Beyond, she could see large farms with their granges. |
2. An establishment where farming is carried on;
† also,
rarely, a group of such places, a village (
obs.). Now applied to: A country house with farm buildings attached, usually the residence of a gentleman-farmer.
| c 1300 Havelok 764 Forbar he neythe[r] tun, ne gronge, Þat he ne to-yede with his ware. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 71 The Samaritan..ladde hym so forth on lyard to lex-christi, a graunge. a 1529 Skelton Col. Cloute 421 Of an abbaye ye make a graunge. 1530 Palsgr. 227/1 Graunge or a lytell thorpe, hameau. Graunge, petit uillage. c 1550 Bale K. Johan (Camd. Soc.) 23 Our changes are soch that an Abbeye turneth to a graunge. 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 38/1 Polycarpus..hid himselfe in a grange or village not farr off from the citie. 1606 Holland Sueton. 193 It received moreover graunges [L. rura] with cornefields, vine yards, pastures and woodes. 1622 Fletcher Prophetess v. iii, Make this little grange seem a large empire. 1623 Cockeram, Graunge, a lone house in the Countrey, a Village. 1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 159 Grange,..a Building which hath Barns, Stables, Stalls, and other necessary Places for Husbandry. 1721 Strype Eccl. Mem. II. xxx. 503 A Messe and a Grange called Badley Grange, of the Value of 42 Shillings in Cheshire. 1849 W. Irving Crayon Misc. 300 One of these renovated establishments, that had but lately been a mere ruin, and was now a substantial grange. 1850 Tennyson In Mem. xci, The thousand waves of wheat, That ripple round the lonely grange. 1876 Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. xvii. 508 They were scattered in lonely granges. |
b. esp. Hist. An outlying farm-house with barns, etc. belonging to a religious establishment or a feudal lord, where crops and tithes in kind were stored.
| c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 482 He is wont for tymber for to go, And dwellen at the grange a day or two. c 1440 Gesta Rom. xlviii. 368 (Add. MS.) All here studie is granges, shepe, nete, and rentes. 1598 Hakluyt Voy. I. 97 Great lordes have cottages or graunges towards the South, from whence their tenants bring them millet. 1726 Ayliffe Parergon 88 Of this sort were their Granges and Priories. 1816 Scott Antiq. iii, A grange, or solitary farm-house, inhabited by the bailiff, or steward, of the monastery. 1868 Yonge Cameos (1877) I. viii. 52 He..harassed a few brethren of the Abbey of Croyland, who inhabited a grange not far from Spalding. 1874 Green Short Hist. iii. §6. 145 [They] turned aside to a grange of the monks of Abingdon. |
† 3. A country house.
Obs.| 1552 Huloet, Graunge, or manour place without the walls of a citie, suburbanum. 1587 Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 98 His wife abode A three myles off the towne, where he had buylte a graunge. 1592 Daniel Compl. Rosamond Poems (1717) 47 Soon was I train'd from Court, T' a solitary Grange. 1611 Cotgr., Beauregard, a Summer house, or Graunge; a house for pleasure, and recreation. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World II. v. iii. §16. 454 Eight yeeres..had hee been absent out of the Citie, and liued in his Countrie Grange. 1630 Donne Serm. xxxix. 391 The Grange or country house of the same Landlord. 1633 Heywood Eng. Trav. iii. Wks. 1874 IV. 43 Who can blame him to absent himselfe from home, And make his Fathers house but as a grange, For a Beautie so Attractiue. |
† 4. fig. in various senses.
Obs.| 1557 Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 179 [Thou] The heape of mishap of all my griefe the graunge. 1580 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 265 Though England be no graunge, but yeeldeth euery thing. 1581 T. Howell Deuises (1879) 201 Where al delights condemde are shut, in sharp repentance grange. 1596 Spenser F.Q. vii. vii. 21 Ne have the watry foules a certaine grange Wherein to rest. 1632 Lithgow Trav. ix. 385 It [Sicily] was also aunciently called the Grange of the Romanes. |
5. U.S. A lodge or local branch of the order of ‘Patrons of Husbandry’, an association for the promotion of the interests of agriculture.
| 1875 C. F. Adams in N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 405 The great convention of the Granges held at Springfield, Ill. 1880 Libr. Univ. Knowl. (U.S.) VII. 9 Grange,..used in the U.S. since 1867, as the familiar name of the state and subordinate organizations of the ‘patrons of husbandry’, a national association of agriculturists. |
6. attrib. and
Comb., as
grange account,
grange farm,
† grange horse,
† grange house,
grange keeper,
† grange place;
grange apple, a particular variety of apple;
† grange-gotten a., ? born in a grange, descended from farmers.
| 1892 Kirk Abingdon Acc. p. xxxi, This account is followed by a *grange account of Mercham. |
| 1823 J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 48 A new variety has been produced between this and the *Grange apple. |
| 1878 Maclear Celts vii. (1879) 118 All flocked forth from their little *grange farms near the monastery. |
| 1586 Warner Alb. Eng. v. xxv. (1589) 112 *Grange-gotten Pierce of Gauelstone, and Spensers two like sort, Meane Gentlemen. |
| 1667 Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of N. (1886) 152 *Grange horses, hackney horses, manage-horses..and others. |
| 1589 Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 85 It is long since wee met, and our house is a *Grange house with you. 1590 Tarlton's News Purgat. 48, I would haue thee staye at our little graunge house in the Countrey. 1701 *Grange-keeper [see granger 1]. |
| c 1340 Cursor M. 5044 (Fairf.) Þai..þe stiwarde fande atte a *grange place [Cott. garner] soiournande. 1590 Greene Roy. Exch. Wks. (Grosart) VII. 242 Sequestrating himself in a graunge place. |
▪ II. † grange, v. Obs. rare—1.
[? f. prec.] trans. Perh. a
fig. use of a
vb. meaning ‘to engross (corn)’.
| c 1595 in Birch Mem. Q. Eliz. (1754) I. 355 This ruffianry of causes I am daily more and more acquainted with, and see the manner of dealing, which groweth by the queen's straitness to give these women, whereby they presume thus to grange and huck causes. |