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Granger   /grˈeɪndʒər/   Listen
noun
Granger  n.  
1.
A farm steward. (Obs.)
2.
A member of a grange. (U. S.)





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"Granger" Quotes from Famous Books



... Canandaigua in central New York, and there dispensed a generous hospitality. Mr. Greig was the agent for some of the English nobility, many of whom owned extensive tracts of land in America. The village of Canandaigua was also the home of the Honorable Francis Granger, a son of Gideon Granger, Postmaster General under Jefferson and Madison. Francis Granger was the Postmaster General for a brief period under President William Henry Harrison, but the latter died ...
— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur
... traveling. Part of our mail must have been lost. Hunt surely wrote to me! He liked Jefferson in spite of the differences in their ages. If I had only had the chance to tell him the truth about you, Drew. But I never knew he was alive either. You remember Granger Wood, Justin?" ...
— Ride Proud, Rebel! • Andre Alice Norton
... she said, "the list of presents exhibited at Arabella Granger's wedding. I didn't hear any mention of the Archibalds. It can't be that they have fallen out; and ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... said the lawyer, "but it's liquid of some kind, for that dilapidated granger has given his friend away. What do hayseeds know about galena, quartz and beryl? These are Grinstun's little mineralogical jokes for gallon, quart and barrel, and trap rock is another little mystery of his. ...
— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell
... "I am to give all the ill; do you find the good;" he may: but if the object which he professes be to give a view of a reign, let him tell all the truth. I would tell truth of the two Georges, or of that scoundrel, King William[703]. Granger's Biographical History[704] is full of curious anecdote, but might have been better done. The dog is a Whig. I do not like much to see a Whig in any dress; but I hate to see a Whig ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell


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