About The Word Pasture

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Pasture

Pasture Meaning & Definition
Pasture Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pasture?

[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pasture: browse | crop | eatage | forage | grass | graze | grazing land | lea | ley | pasturage | pastureland | range

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pasture: appetite | arable land | barley | barnyard | barton | batten upon | bird seed | board | bran | bread | browse | campo | cannibalism | carnivorism | carnivority | carnivorousness | cat food | cattle ranch | chewing | chicken farm | chicken feed | chop | collective farm | consumption | corn | cotton plantation | croft | crop | cropping | dairy farm | deglutition | demesne | demesne farm | devouring | devourment | dieting | dine | dining | dog food | dry farm | dude ranch | eatage | epulation | factory farm | fallow | farm | farmery | farmhold | farmland | farmplace | farmstead | farmyard | fatten on | fatten upon | feast on | feast upon | feasting | feed | feed on | feeding | fodder | forage | fruit farm | fur farm | gluttony | gobbling | grain | grain farm | grange | grass | grass veld | grassland | gratify | graze | grazing | hacienda | haugh | haughland | hay | herbivorism | herbivority | herbivorousness | homecroft | homefarm | homestead | hunger | ingestion | kibbutz | kolkhoz | lea | licking | live on | llano | location | mains | manducation | manor farm | mash | mastication | mead | meadow | meadow land | meal | meat | mess | messing | munching | nibbling | nutrition | oats | omnivorism | omnivorousness | omophagy | orchard | pampa | pampas | pantophagy | park | pasturage | pasture land | pasture on | pasturing | pecking | pen | pet food | plantation | poultry farm | prairie | prey on | provender | provision | ranch | rancheria | rancho | range | regale | regalement | relishing | rumination | satisfy | savanna | savoring | scratch | scratch feed | sheep farm | silage | slops | station | steading | steppe | steppeland | stock farm | straw | sustain | swale | swill | tasting | toft | truck farm | vega | vegetarianism | veld | wheat | wine and dine | wolfing

See Also | common land | commons | country | cow pasture | drift | eat | feed | feed | give | grass | grassland | provender | rural area

Pasture In Webster's Dictionary

\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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