Words similar to ranching

Example sentences for: ranching

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Using the Endangered Species Act, Suckling has sued to halt logging, ranching, cattle grazing, and construction throughout wide swaths of the Southwest.
But even though as a boy I lived on a ranch right on the Mexican border, I remember being mystified by ranching terms that crept into Western songs from north of us, cayuse, for example.
Let us now pass on to the names of some clothing items that Texans borrowed and then passed on to the rest of the country: sombrero, mantilla, poncho, rebozo, serape , and huarache . A number of animals and vegetables followed the same route: avocado from aguacate; mesquite; sapodilla from zapote; guayule; coyote; armadillo; ocelot from ocelote; chaparral ; and javalina from jabalina . Since cattle ranching is common to both sides of the border, it should come as no surprise that there has been an exchange of ranch-related words: lariat from la reata; bronco; lasso from lazo; rodeo; chaps from chaparreras; charro; hackamore from jáquima; mustang from mestengo ; and quirt from cuerda or cuarta .
But most ranching terms, including such essential ones as cowboy, grass, pasture, fence, heifer, beef, boots, saddle, and so on, are obviously common English words of long standing.
California grew into a territory with just one industry — cattle ranching, for the sale of cowhide and tallow.