DEPASTURE

Etymology

Verb

depasture (third-person singular simple present depastures, present participle depasturing, simple past and past participle depastured)

(archaic) To eat up, consume; to strip.

(archaic) To feed or pasture; to graze.

The New Sporting Magazine (volume 18, page 184)

Anagrams

• depurates, reupdates, superated

Source: Wiktionary


De*pas"ture, v. t. & i.

Definition: To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture. [R.] Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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