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Home range   /hoʊm reɪndʒ/   Listen
Home range

noun
1.
The area in which an animal normally ranges.  Synonym: home territory.






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"Home range" Quotes from Famous Books



... was set; about him were the small shut-in valleys where the "little fellows" had their holdings and small herds of long horns and saddle ponies. Before him were the mountains with Kemble's place upon their far slope and his own home range lying still farther to the east. There were many streams to ford in the country through which he was now riding, all muddy-watered, laced with white, frothing edgings, but none to rise higher than ...
— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory

... from the home range," she added musingly. "Looks like a getaway—what honest men would be smokin' up their horses in heat ...
— The Lady Doc • Caroline Lockhart

... of his body was still in the sand—but his sleep had been broken and brief. He had ridden fast and all night long, but he was not yet far enough away to feel secure. There was always a danger, too, that the horses would break for their home range, although he kept the mare who led the band on the picket rope when they were not travelling. His own horse, ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart



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