Pasture

['pɑːstʃə] or ['pæstʃɚ]

Definition

(noun.) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.

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Definition

(n.) Food; nourishment.

(n.) Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.

(n.) Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.

(v. t.) To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.

(v. i.) To feed on growing grass; to graze.

Checked by Cecily

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Herbage, herbs, pasturage, grass, grazing land.

v. a. Supply with pasturage, graze, turn out to pasture.

Editor: Melinda

Definition

n. grass for grazing: ground covered with grass for grazing.—v.t. to feed on pasture: to supply with grass.—v.i. to feed on pasture: to graze.—adj. Past′ūrable that can be pastured: fit for pasture.—ns. Past′ūrage the business of feeding or grazing cattle: pasture-land: grass for feeding; Past′ūre-land land appropriated to pasture.—adj. Past′ūreless destitute of pasture.

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