PASTURE
eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grass
(noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
pasture, pastureland, grazing land, lea, ley
(noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
crop, browse, graze, range, pasture
(verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture; “the herd was grazing”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pasture (countable and uncountable, plural pastures)
Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
(obsolete) Food, nourishment.
Synonyms
• leasow
Verb
pasture (third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured)
(transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
(intransitive) To graze.
(transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
Anagrams
• Pasteur, Puertas, Supetar, tear-ups, tears up, uprates, upstare, uptears
Source: Wiktionary
Pas"ture, n. Etym: [OF. pasture, F. pâture, 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.]
Definition: 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.
Definition: To feed on growing grass; to graze.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition