The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word RANGED
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What does RANGED mean?
RANGED verb- To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- To rove over or through.
- To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
- To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- (followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- To classify.
- To form a line or a row.
- To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
- To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
- To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- To separate into parts; to sift.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- (of a projectile, or projectile system) whose range can be adjusted