pasture

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A tract of land that supports grass or other vegetation eaten by domestic grazing animals.
• noun Such vegetation, especially that eaten by domestic grazing animals.
• noun The feeding or grazing of animals.
• intransitive verb To herd (animals) into a pasture to graze.
• intransitive verb To provide (animals) with pasturage. Used of land.
• intransitive verb To graze on (land or vegetation).
• intransitive verb To use (land) as pasture.
• intransitive verb To graze in a pasture.
• idiom (put out to pasture) To herd (grazing animals) into pasturable land.
• idiom Informal (put out to pasture) To retire or compel to retire from work or a full workload.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A rocky shore where codfish resort to spawn.
• noun Food; nourishment; fare.
• noun Grass for the food of cattle or other animals; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
• noun Ground covered with grass appropriated for the grazing of cattle or other animals.
• noun In the fisheries, one of the compartments of a deep-water weir, which corresponds to what is termed the big pond in the shoal-water weir; that part of the weir which the fish first enter, being directed by the leader. See deep-water weir, under weir.
• To feed by grazing; supply or afford pasture or nourishment to: as, the land will pasture fifty oxen; the cattle were pastured on the hillside or in the meadow.
• To graze; take food by eating growing herbage from the ground.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete Food; nourishment.
• noun Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
• noun Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.
• transitive verb To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for
• intransitive verb To feed on growing grass; to graze.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
• noun Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
• noun obsolete Food, nourishment.
• verb transitive To move animals into a pasture to graze.
• verb intransitive To graze.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb feed as in a meadow or pasture
• verb let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
• noun bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
• noun a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock