Word Finder - grazing

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To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

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1999: Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).

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To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

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Cattle graze in the meadows.

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To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

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To eat periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes.

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To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.

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To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.

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the bullet grazed the wall

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To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

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to graze one's knee

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To yield grass for grazing.

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Grazeland.

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The action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland.

The bison were grazing all around the pond.

When they stepped outside, the buffalo were grazing near the pond.

The bison were grazing in the distance.

He reached out to take the hourglass, grazing her skin in the act.

Agriculture and grazing are the principal industries.

The adults ignored them, grazing contentedly on the deep grass.

This look features blunt, sloping hair grazing one side of the face.

Grazing is the principal industry, but sugar-cane, tobacco and fruit are cultivated.

The other parts of the state are generally too dry or too mountainous for growing crops, but contain considerable areas suitable for grazing.

Agriculture and grazing occupy some attention in the north, but are handicapped by lack of water.

This region serves as a winter grazing ground for sheep from the Transvaal.

When he possessed ancestral land he was a flaith or lord, and was entitled to let his lands for grazing, to have a hamlet in which lived labourers and to keep slaves.

Thus A is zero at grazing incidence and at the critical angle, and attains its maximum value 7r-4 tan1 (I/p) at an angle of incidence given by sin e i=2/(p.2+I).

While grazing they feed almost continually, preferring short pasture.

Alfalfa and other cultivated grasses are encroaching on the whole region, and even the natural arid-land bunch grasses make excellent grazing.

It was a desolate wasteland except for some grazing sheep.

I do not know the distribution and extent of the grazing marsh which is pasture or meadow and how much is grazed and periodically inundated with water.

To mimic this sophisticated flair, sweep hair into nape grazing low buns or side swept twists.

The microbiological system is closed by mesozooplankton grazing pressures taken from observed zooplankton abundance.

Invertebrates such as the northern brown Argus are also at risk from heavy grazing.

Dead and fallen aspen should be left undisturbed and protected from deer and rabbit grazing.

Unusually, grazing levels appear to be low enough to allow the development of mountain avens heath on slopes open to grazing animals.

It is also ideal land for fattening beef cattle and you still see some of the beautiful white-faced Herefords grazing on the lush pasture.

Stephen Foale and Steve Bishop presented their elegant study of grazing bifurcations in impacting systems, relevant to the rattling of engineering structures.

Alternatively, animals which have already been turned out can be administered a bolus later in the grazing season.

Using chemicals Chemicals to kill bracken to stop soil becoming too acidic Horse for grazing.

Where grazing has been limited the number of species is higher, with reed canary-grass and stone bramble.

There were also many Yellow Wagtails feeding around the grazing cattle, plus one Little Egret.

Grazing with sheep will reduce it, as will sowing clover into an infested pasture.

In addition, a special derogation has been granted to the owners of ponies grazing in the New Forest and on Dartmoor.

Three deer exclosures in ancient woodland have been erected to detect vegetation changes due to the absence of grazing by deer.

The fort now overlooks a large expanse of grazing marshes to the west which once formed a great inland estuary.

The numbers and sizes of limpets and other grazing gastropods were determined by measurements and counts from the digital images.

Hay cutting and carefully managed grazing produces a rich floral assemblage including gentians and orchids.

South through Tanzania, our route takes us through Mikumi National Park where we may well see giraffe or elephant grazing along the roadside.

Bracken fern is a weed species mainly found on rough grazing.

Growth is suppressed but rotational grazing does not kill the plants.

The plan was to ride to check on the cattle grazing on the summer pastures.

You are sure to have company from the local livestock grazing next to the roadway.

I notice nothing is said about a large herd of reindeer grazing on the plateau, they don't live on fresh air.

Eventually the mansions give way to a more pastoral vision of cows grazing under willow trees.

Start to dig in overwintered green manures such as grazing rye and winter tares.

A restored 18th century farmhouse with 2 gites and stables surrounded by 13 hectares of gardens and grazing.

Sheep grazing should be practiced only at the rosette stage, with a low infestation rate and other herbage available.

The skull itself is rounded and self-contained -- superficially resembling a monkey's skull more than a grazing herbivore 's (Figure 5 ).

I climbed a little hillock nearby and saw to my delight a herd of horses grazing on the grassy plain.

Good sight lines are important acoustically as they prevent absorption of the direct sound by grazing incidence over the heads of the audience.

Increased grazing intensity is believed to have reduced the frequency of many of the characteristic herbaceous plants and removed them from heavily grazed sites.

Grass sickness is a usually fatal condition of grazing horses which causes varying degrees of paralysis of the horse's intestines.

The majority occur in arable land with some in coastal grazing marsh.