pastureland
tʃər, ˈpɑs- noun
1.
2.
a specific area or piece of such ground.
3.
grass or other plants for feeding livestock.
verb (used with object)
4.
to feed (livestock) by putting them out to graze on pasture.
5.
(of land) to furnish with pasture.
6.
(of livestock) to graze upon.
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verb (used without object)
Idioms 7.
(of livestock) to graze in a pasture.
8.
put out to pasture,
a.
to put in a pasture to graze.
b.
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.
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| —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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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).
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