What does "pasture" mean?
Pasture: Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
Additional senses
- 2.Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. Ps. xxiii.
- 3.So graze as you find pasture. Shak.
- 4.To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
- 5.To feed on growing grass; to graze.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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