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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.

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

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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