pasturing

Variant of pasture

pasture definition

pas·ture (pas′c̸hər)

noun

  1. grass or other growing plants used as food by grazing animals
    1. ground suitable for grazing
    2. a field, plot, etc. set aside for this

Etymology: OFr < LL pastura < L pascere, to feed: see food

transitive verb pastured -·tured, pasturing -·tur·ing

  1. to put (cattle, etc.) out to graze in a pasture
  2. to graze or feed on (grass, etc.)
  3. to provide with pasture: said of land

intransitive verb

to feed on growing grass or herbage

Related Forms:

pasture Idioms

put out to pasture

  1. to put in a pasture to graze
  2. to allow or compel to retire from work

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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