pasture

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Grass or other vegetation eaten as food by grazing animals.
2. n. Ground on which such vegetation grows, especially that which is set aside for use by domestic grazing animals.
3. n. The feeding or grazing of animals.
4. v. To herd (animals) into a pasture to graze.
5. v. To provide (animals) with pasturage. Used of land.
6. v. To graze on (land or vegetation).
7. v. To use (land) as pasture.
8. v. To graze in a pasture.
9. idiom. put out to pasture To herd (grazing animals) into pasturable land.
10. idiom. put out to pasture Informal To retire or compel to retire from work or a full workload.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Food; nourishment; fare.
2. n. Grass for the food of cattle or other animals; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
3. n. Ground covered with grass appropriated for the grazing of cattle or other animals.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. To graze; take food by eating growing herbage from the ground.
7. n. A rocky shore where codfish resort to spawn.

Wiktionary

1. n. land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
2. n. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
3. n. Food, nourishment.
4. v. To move animals into a pasture to graze.
5. v. To graze.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Food; nourishment.
2. n. Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
3. n. Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.
4. v. To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for
5. v. To feed on growing grass; to graze.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. feed as in a meadow or pasture
2. v. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
3. n. bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
4. n. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock