Grange

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A building for storing grain; a granary.

II. Grange ·noun A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors.

III. Grange ·noun A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes.

IV. Grange ·noun A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited.

V. Grange ·noun An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, aud particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867.