Definition of Free-range

1. Adjective. Of livestock and domestic poultry; permitted to graze or forage rather than being confined to a feedlot.

Similar to: Unconfined

Definition of Free-range

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or produced by animals that are allowed to roam freely, rather than being confined indoors. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Free-range

free-flowing
free-for-all
free-form
free-hand knife
free-hearted
free-heel skiing
free-lance
free-liver
free-livers
free-living
free-living organism
free-market
free-marketeer
free-marketeers
free-milling
free-range (current term)
free-reed
free-reed instrument
free-soil
free-speech
free-spoken
free-standing
free-stone
free-swimming
free-tailed bat
free-thinking
free-throw lane
free-throw line
free-throw lines
free-to-air

Literary usage of Free-range

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century (1902)
"... the small cattle-owner, to compete with, he would soon conquer and secure better conditions; but Jack is now only the symbol of the free range. ..."

2. The Ancient Laws of Wales: Viewed Especially in Regard to the Light They by Hubert Lewis (1889)
"Law of Cattle Trespass: Rights of Free Range.—The Herdsman of the Trev. HOWEVER it came about, it certainly was the case that there were free members of the ..."

3. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"Harper v. New Hanover County C'om'rs. 133 XC 106, 45 SE 526, it does not follow that the entire vote on the free-range policy is to be ignored ..."

4. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1827)
"... parties visiting it lines, are provided for visitors; but tlemen subscribers not using his the real angler to take his own a free range of tne water. ..."

5. The Geography of the Ozark Highland of Missouri by Carl Ortwin Sauer (1920)
"THE FREE RANGE A large part of the wild land still constitutes a free range. Stock law, which makes the owner responsible for all unconfined stock, ..."

6. That Unknown Country: Or, what Living Men Believe Concerning Punishment (1889)
"... THE CONCEPTION OF FUTURE RETRIBUTIONS ACCORDING TO THE MOHAMMEDAN THEOLOGY. Free Range of Arabian Imagination in Depicting the Agonies of Hell, ..."

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