PASTURING

Verb

pasturing

present participle of pasture

Noun

pasturing (countable and uncountable, plural pasturings)

The process of putting an animal out to pasture.

Land used as pasture.

Anagrams

• upratings, upstaring

Source: Wiktionary


PASTURE

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



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