pasture Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
    pastureland; ley; grazing land; lea.
  2. noun bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
    eatage; pasturage; forage; grass.
  3. verb let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
    graze; crop.
  4. verb feed as in a meadow or pasture
    browse; graze; range; crop.
    • the herd was grazing

WordNet

Pas"ture noun
Etymology
OF. pasture, F. pâture, L. pastura, fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. See Pastor.
Definitions
  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 transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Pastured ; present participle & verbal noun Pasturing
Definitions
  1. 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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To feed on growing grass; to graze.

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