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Pasture

//ˈpæs.t͡ʃɚ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding. countable, uncountable
2
bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle wordnet
3
Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock. countable, uncountable
"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures."
4
a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock wordnet
5
Food, nourishment. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […]."

Verb

1
To move animals into a pasture. transitive
2
feed as in a meadow or pasture wordnet
3
To graze. intransitive
4
let feed in a field or pasture or meadow wordnet
5
To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for. transitive
"The farmer pastures fifty oxen."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin pāstūra, from the stem of pāscō (“to feed, graze”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin pāstūra, from the stem of pāscō (“to feed, graze”).

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