Pasture

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Grass or other vegetation eaten as food by grazing animals.
  • n. Ground on which such vegetation grows, especially that which is set aside for use by domestic grazing animals.
  • n. The feeding or grazing of animals.
  • v. To herd (animals) into a pasture to graze.
  • v. To provide (animals) with pasturage. Used of land.
  • v. To graze on (land or vegetation).
  • v. To use (land) as pasture.
  • verb-intransitive. To graze in a pasture.
  • idiom. put out to pasture To herd (grazing animals) into pasturable land.
  • idiom. put out to pasture Informal To retire or compel to retire from work or a full workload.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
  • n. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
  • n. Food, nourishment.
  • v. To move animals into a pasture to graze.
  • v. To graze.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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. To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for
  • verb-intransitive. To feed on growing grass; to graze.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Food; nourishment; fare.
  • n. Grass for the food of cattle or other animals; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
  • n. Ground covered with grass appropriated for the grazing of cattle or other animals.
  • n. In the fisheries, one of the compartments of a deep-water weir, which corresponds to what is termed the big pond in the shoal-water weir; that part of the weir which the fish first enter, being directed by the leader. See deep-water weir, under weir.
  • To feed by grazing; supply or afford pasture or nourishment to: as, the land will pasture fifty oxen; the cattle were pastured on the hillside or in the meadow.
  • To graze; take food by eating growing herbage from the ground.
  • n. A rocky shore where codfish resort to spawn.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. feed as in a meadow or pasture
  • v. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
  • n. bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
  • n. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
  • Verb Form
    pastured    pastures    pasturing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    feed    eat    fodder   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    pastured    pasturing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    food    nourishment    pasturage    graze    pascual    pascuous    grazing   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    meadow    orchard    prairie    lawn    marsh    farm    grass    grove    hillside    landscape