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[pas-cher, pahs-]

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noun

Also called pas·ture·land

[pas-cher-land, pahs-] . an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.

a specific area or piece of such ground.

grass or other plants for feeding livestock.

verb (used with object)

to feed (livestock) by putting them out to graze on pasture.

(of land) to furnish with pasture.

(of livestock) to graze upon.

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verb (used without object)

(of livestock) to graze in a pasture.

Idiom

put out to pasture,

to put in a pasture to graze.

to dismiss, retire, or use sparingly as being past one's or its prime: Most of our older employees don't want to be put out to pasture.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Middle French < Late Latin pāstūra, equivalent to Latin pāst(us), past participle of pāscere to feed, pasture (compare pastor) + -ūra -ure

Related forms

pas·tur·al, adjective

pas·ture·less, adjective

pas·tur·er, noun

un·pas·tured, adjective

Example Sentences

The milkweed has blown, and the sun now sets in the southwest corner of the pasture.

People who can't keep up will be put out to pasture.

This, it turns out, is the best means yet devised for rescuing degraded pasture lands.

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The milkweed has blown, and the sun now sets in the southwest corner of the pasture.

People who can't keep up will be put out to pasture.

This, it turns out, is the best means yet devised for rescuing degraded pasture lands.

Their bleached bones remained arrayed on the pasture for years as a testament to ill fortune.

We stand in warm rain on a dirt road and contemplate a cattle pasture.

Sutphin's hilly pasture was a treat for my brothers and me.

She found an old bathtub in a pasture and covered it with broken tiles.

And the touchscreen landscape is still a green pasture that a manufacturer has yet to claim.

Hundreds of herdsmen and tens of thousands of cattle have withered and died on futile treks in search of pasture.

Access to pasture is a requirement for certified-organic poultry products, including eggs.

In the next comment you want to convert farmland to pasture.

The barrio ends abruptly after a few blocks at open pasture.

We've ridden down a narrow dell to the edge of an aspen-ringed meadow, where a quarter-mile of sunstruck pasture beckons.

It will definitely put out to pasture a lot of older, bigger and even more powerful systems.

Further west lie giant areas of pasture for cattle and plains of soyabeans.

When the weather turns warmer, boys are sent into the hills with livestock to find pasture for the herds.

Imagine a cattleman having a finite amount of pasture that keeps twice the amount of cattle the pasture can feed.

There are studies that show the eggs of pasture fed chickens are healthier for us.

They later put the tool out to pasture in favor of commercial solutions.

Some pasture land is later used to grow soya, another commodity with a voracious international market.

The field and pasture damage caused by wombat burrowing can be a destructive nuisance to ranchers and farmers.

One day, to his parents' dismay, he slipped through a fence and ran into their neighbor's horse pasture.

Still half-finished, in a cow pasture protected by barbed wire, the tropical free trade complex beckoned.

Drought often sparks battles over water and pasture.

Some species provide safe pasture for green algae to grow and in turn receive oxygen and sugar from photosynthesis.

Two belching diesel generators that have till now provided the electricity to keep the lights on will be put out to pasture.

Conversion of land use from forest to agriculture and pasture is what causes deforestation.

But two old sun-observing warhorses recently showed they're not quite ready for pasture yet.

The taste of milk from a cow on pasture is not consistant.

The former horse pasture has been turned into a golf course.

Farmers have grown trees on their farms and pasture lands for millions of years.

It may also come in handy if you're ever lost in a cow pasture.

These forests are repeatedly cut and used for pasture and hay fields.

Tract houses on prim lanes have been built over the original pasture.

They are amazing animals but definitely not your typical horse you see grazing in a pasture.

The yayla is the common summer pasture high in the mountains.

She had been told to wait an hour in a lower pasture for the animals to be released.

The nature of the fat in an animal fed on pasture is different from that of one raised on grain.

Summer also means the picnic season, whether the picnic be held in the back yard or in someone else's pasture miles away.

Making better use of the land such as pasture land for the sake of ethanol could also have been done for the sake of food.

The cattle men moved in onto one of the great natural pasture lands of the world.

Smart pasture operations raise cows on pasture, which is what they are built to eat.

Mountains give way to green pasture, green pasture to white beach and beach to blue sea.

The far banks are mostly pasture and hay fields giving way to national forest.

Millions of dollars in crops, livestock and pasture were lost by farmers.

He and a friend have discovered the low corner of a cow pasture where rainwater and snowmelt collect under a warming sun.

Last week, the wind pulled apart a sugar maple on the edge of the pasture.

In the wet season, you walked with your mother north where rains turned a parched, stunted shrubland into a verdant pasture.

The ship-rock that always seems to be sinking in the middle pasture hasn't sunk an inch in all this time.

Luis showed me a lush forest with dozens of orchids that had been degraded pasture only six years earlier.

Several homes were left in shambles one to two miles from the explosion and rolling pasture was charred.

We went to a small pasture and saw many giant tortoises roaming freely.

There was good pasture of centotheca, a semi-succulent plant, which is a favorite of the addax.

We were here to observe the elephants during the seasonal metamorphosis from barren desert to verdant pasture.

But a kind lady let us put our horses in her pasture for the night so they were safe.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

Ro·gi·er

[Fr. raw-zhee-ey] or Ro·ger

[Fr. raw-zhey] de la

[Fr. duh-la] . Weyden, Rogier van der.

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World English Dictionary

pasture (ˈpɑːstʃə)

—n
1.	land covered with grass or herbage and grazed by or suitable for grazing by livestock
2.	a specific tract of such land
3.	the grass or herbage growing on it

—vb
4.	(tr) to cause (livestock) to graze or (of livestock) to graze (a pasture)

[C13: via Old French from Late Latin pāstūra, from pascere to feed]

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

pasture

c.1300, from O.Fr. pasture "grass eaten by cattle," from L.L. pastura "a feeding, grazing," from L. pastus, pp. of pascere "to feed, graze" (see pastor).

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

pasture

see put out to grass (pasture).