Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a prostitute.

1614		Jonson Bartholomew Fair IV v: O, you are a sweet ranger! and look well to your walks.
1830		Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 4/1: A young woman [...] commonly called the Manhattan Island ranger.
1856		Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 22 Nov. n.p.: Dolly, one of the Milk street rangers [...] Reform, or you will hear from me again.

2. the penis.

1684		Rochester (attrib.) Sodom III i: Great Bolloxinian, no. / Your shanker Ranger & your great Bubo / Swell to your heart, your nodes and vicers stink, / All all are past one Cure or dyet drink.
1785		[author pseudonym] ‘Roger Ranger’ Covent Garden Jester.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

3. a pimp.

1687

J. Phillips [trans.] Cervantes Don Quixote 98: This venerable Monsieur Grey-beard [...] was the chief Ranger of Whetston’s-Park; besides that, he had a smack of Conjuring and Fortune-telling [...] I should have been heartily sorry to see this venerable Seer in such Distress, for being a Pimp only, had it not been for criminal Additions of Conjurer, and Fortune-teller.

4. (Aus.) a bushranger.

1900

Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Jul. 13/2: [T]he A.G. was a passenger by the coach which was stuck up by Day, the bushranger, near Hartley. At the trial of the ’ranger at Bathurst, Bayley, as Attorney-General, prosecuted for the Crown, and also gave evidence.