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Noun: pasture  pãs-chu(r)
  1. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
    - pastureland, pasture land, grazing land, lea, ley, grazing
     
  2. Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
    - eatage [dialect], forage, pasturage, grass, grazing
Verb: pasture  pãs-chu(r)
  1. Let feed in a field, pasture or meadow
    - crop, graze
     
  2. Feed as in a meadow or pasture
    "the herd was pasturing";
    - crop, browse, graze, range

Derived forms: pastured, pastures, pasturing

Type of: eat, feed, fodder, give, grassland

Part of: country, rural area

Encyclopedia: Pasture