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pasturing

[pas-cher, pahs-] Origin

pas·ture

[pas-cher, pahs-] noun, verb, -tured, -tur·ing.
noun
1.
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.
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)
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.

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

pas·tur·al, adjective
pas·ture·less, adjective
pas·tur·er, noun
un·pas·tured, adjective
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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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