Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Grass or other vegetation eaten as food by grazing animals.
- n. Ground on which such vegetation grows, especially that which is set aside for use by domestic grazing animals.
- n. The feeding or grazing of animals.
- v. To herd (animals) into a pasture to graze.
- v. To provide (animals) with pasturage. Used of land.
- v. To graze on (land or vegetation).
- v. To use (land) as pasture.
- v. To graze in a pasture.
- idiom. put out to pasture To herd (grazing animals) into pasturable land.
- idiom. put out to pasture Informal To retire or compel to retire from work or a full workload.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Food; nourishment; fare.
- n. Grass for the food of cattle or other animals; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
- n. Ground covered with grass appropriated for the grazing of cattle or other animals.
- n. 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.
- n. A rocky shore where codfish resort to spawn.
Wiktionary
- n. land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
- n. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
- n. Food, nourishment.
- v. To move animals into a pasture to graze.
- v. To graze.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Food; nourishment.
- n. Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
- n. Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.
- v. To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for
- v. To feed on growing grass; to graze.
WordNet 3.0
- v. feed as in a meadow or pasture
- v. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
- n. bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- n. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin pāstūra, from Latin pāstus, past participle of pāscere, to feed; see pā- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“However, that they feel safe in the pasture is a good thing.”
“Five thousand for a claim on that damned moose-pasture is bunco.”
“Two weeks in pasture, an 'then they go to Lawndale.”
“The soft earth of the country, with a preliminary rest in pasture with their shoes pulled off, would put them in shape.”
“He was both pleased and surprised that it went so well because the buffalo had never reacted like that before and no one but he has been with the buffs in pasture either.”
“Once they discovered their expanded digs after a day in pasture, they immediately started investigating it — and found new grass to munch!”
“He could see the fenced-in pasture where the cows still slumbered, the tiny farmhouse in the middle of it all, and on the far side, the apple orchards.”
“This pasture is free of cattle and full of native browse, water, etc.”
“Just remember, the pasture is where the bulls take a dump.”
“I admire Gov Sanford for being honest if not anything else but putting his wife of 20years out to pasture is another thing.”
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