pasture
pas·ture (pas′c̸hər)
noun
- grass or other growing plants used as food by grazing animals
- ground suitable for grazing
- a field, plot, etc. set aside for this
Etymology: OFr < LL pastura < L pascere, to feed: see food
transitive verb -·tured, -·tur·ing
- to put (cattle, etc.) out to graze in a pasture
- to graze or feed on (grass, etc.)
- to provide with pasture: said of land
intransitive verb
to feed on growing grass or herbage
put out to pasture
- to put in a pasture to graze
- to allow or compel to retire from work
Converse of object
- graze: Problem: Creeping thistle in almost permanently grazed sheep pasture.
- undulate: Historic parklands are usually enclosed, relatively flat or gently undulating pastures with widely spaced trees.
- infest: Grazing with sheep will reduce it, as will sowing clover into an infested pasture.
- enclose: In the floodplain there are still areas of enclosed meadow pasture.
- afford: These hills are mostly bleak and barren, affording scanty pasture to large numbers of sheep.
Preposition: for
- cattle: However, the impact of increased grazing use of these pastures for beef cattle on the level of pollutants produced has not been quantified.
- sheep: William Peverel's manor had an area of 402 acres, pasture for 100 sheep and a fishery.
Adjective modifier
- unimproved: Unimproved pasture is of high conservation value whether upland or lowland.
- lush: Up to 40 years ago, South Devon herds were a familiar site in the lush pastures of Devon.
- Lowland: Woodlands are mainly found around Drumbeg and are primarily associated with small estates ( Lowland woodland pasture and parkland ).
- verdant: Our walks take you through a world of vertical rock, snowy ledges, long screes and verdant summer pastures.
- alpine: Having digested and admired the views some more, we headed back down toward St Agatha across more alpine pastures.
- lowland: Wet woodlands, upland oakwoods, and lowland wood pastures and parkland are national priority habitats.
Modifies a noun
- land: White Lodge lies in three acres of peaceful flat pasture land.
Noun used with modifier
- rho: Habitats such as rhos pasture, heaths, wetlands and bluebell woods remain part of the everyday local environment in many Valleys communities.
- rush: There is some wet rush pasture toward the summit; elsewhere most cattle pasture is now equestrian grazing.
- grazing: The parkland character is of grazing pastures fringed with beech woods.
- wood: Wood pasture was a favored sporting environment in the Middle Ages ideally suited to hunting deer on horseback.
- sheep: However, by the 16th century Grimes Graves had become a sheep pasture.
- moorland: Carpet of open moorland pasture and heather with extensive bog and areas of damp grassland on flatter land and lower slopes.
An English homeögrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepöall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.
Ocome, let ussing untothe Lord; let usheartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and shew ourselves glad in him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God; and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth; and the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it; and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is the Lord our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
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