Meaning of PASTURE
| Pronunciation: | | 'paschur
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- [n] animal food for browsing or grazing
- [n] a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
- [v] feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"
- [v] let (animals) feed in a field or pasture or meadow
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| | Synonyms: | | browse, crop, eatage, forage, grass, graze, grazing land, lea, ley, pasturage, pastureland, range |
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| | See Also: | | common land, commons, country, cow pasture, drift, eat, feed, feed, give, grass, grassland, provender, rural area | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Pas"ture\, n. [OF. pasture, F. p[^a]ture, L. pastura,
fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. See {Pastor}.]
1. Food; nourishment. [Obs.]
Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous. --Spenser.
2. Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the
food of cattle taken by grazing.
3. Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. --Ps.
xxiii. 2.
So graze as you find pasture. --Shak.
\Pas"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pastured}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Pasturing}.]
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.
\Pas"ture\, v. i.
To feed on growing grass; to graze.
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