Pasture

/ˈpɑːst͡ʃə/ · noun

Meaning

Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding..

Definitions by Sense

1. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
2. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
3. (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
4. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
5. (intransitive) To graze.
6. (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

Example Sentences

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

So graze as you find pasture.

Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […].

It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.

The farmer pastures fifty oxen.

The land will pasture forty cows.

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• pastures
• pasturing
• pastured

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