noun
definition
Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
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Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
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Food, nourishment.
verb
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To move animals into a pasture.
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To graze.
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To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
example
The farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
Examples of pasture in a Sentence
He's so lonely in that pasture all by his self.
They rode across the pasture and entered a path through the forest.
Narrow down the field to another pasture, so to speak?
The cows came home from the pasture and stood mooing at the gate.
The five of them raced across the pasture, toward the buffalo pen.
The trees flowed gracefully down the mountain side, ending in the pasture where the goats used to graze.
The proportion of tillage to pasture is roughly as 1 to 22.
The remainder of the island consists chiefly of pasture and morass.
Princess was getting along in her new pasture and the other horses were all doing well.
There was pasture enough for my imagination.
I want to take you out to the north pasture before we leave today.
It sprawled out half way across the pasture toward her house.
Carmen watched from the porch as Alex leaned down from his horse and opened the pasture gate.
The plateau portion of West Virginia is largely covered by hardwood forests, but along the Ohio river and its principal tributaries the valuable timber has been removed and considerable areas have been wholly cleared for farming and pasture lands.
The god of a city was originally owner of its land, which encircled it with an inner ring of irrigable arable land and an outer fringe of pasture, and the citizens were his tenants.
This industry has prospered greatly, and the area of permanent pasture encroaches continually upon that of arable land.
By the 39th Elizabeth (1597) arable land made pasture since the 1st Elizabeth shall be again converted into tillage, and what is arable shall not be converted into pasture.
Most of these main streams flow through profound gorges in a tropical climate, while the upper slopes yield products of the temperate zone, and the plateaus above are cold and bleak, affording only pasture and the hardiest cereals.
They also advised the protection and extension of communal rights of pasture, and the planting of the higher slopes with forest, with a view to the possible increase of the water-supply.
The temple itself was a great landowner, possessed of both farms and pasture land.
The middle zone of Ararat, 5000-11,500 ft., is covered with good pasture, the upper and lower zones are for the most part sterile.
According to the return for 1900 about 55% of the entire surface was occupied by arable land, 26% by forest and 9% by pasture and meadow-land.
The word signifies horned cattle, and is found in Shakespeare's own writing, in the restored line "It is the pasture lards the rother's sides" (Timon of Athens), '' where "brother's" was originally the accredited reading.
East of the Ain, forests of fir and oak abound on the mountains, the lower slopes of which give excellent pasture for sheep and cattle, and much cheese is produced.
The effect of this, craftily calculated beforehand, was to compel the peasants to rent pasture lands from the landlord at any price.
A large part of the Trent valley is under permanent pasture, being devoted to cattle-feeding and dairy-farming.
Even better pasture is found in the low veld, but there stock suffers in summer from many endemic diseases, and in the more northerly regions is subject to the attack of the tsetse fly.
There are excellent pasture lands, especially in the upland districts, and stock-raising is an important and profitable industry.
On the commons or moors burgesses have rights of pasture.
It is a rich and well-watered country, producing abundance of grain and hops, and yielding excellent pasture for cattle.
The writer has found that many pasture soils containing less than.
It was plundered, although Totila did not carry out his threat to make it a pasture for cattle, and when the Gothic army withdrew into Apulia it was from a scene of desolation.
In the spring months, when their camels are in milk, the Bedouins care nothing for water, and wander far into the Nafud with their flocks in search of the green pasture which springs up everywhere after the winter rains.
The great wealth of the Arabs is in their flocks of sheep and goats; they are led out to pasture soon after sunrise, and in the hotter months drink every second day.
The Nafud sands, too, are tufted in many places with bushes or small trees, and after the winter rains they produce excellent pasture.
Formerly nearly the whole of Muttra consisted of pasture and woodland, but the roads constructed as relief works in1837-1838have thrown open many large tracts of country, and the task of reclamation has since proceeded rapidly.
The woods of algarrobo are used for pasture, cattle and horses enjoying the pendulous yellow pods.
In the loftiest regions the pasture chiefly consists of a coarse grass (Stipa ychu), of which the llamas eat the upper blades and the sheep browse on the tender shoots beneath.
It appears, therefore, that in the tradition followed by the Israelite historian the tribes within whose pasture lands the mountain of God stood were worshippers of Yahweh before the time of Moses; and the surmise that the name Yahweh belongs to their speech, rather than to that of Israel, has considerable probability.
The soil is sandy but affords good pasture in some places, and has been farmed with some success; the flora is rich, and includes some rare species.
It is less arid than the province of Atacama, the surface near the coast being broken by well-watered river valleys, which produce alfalfa, and pasture cattle for export.
But the decline of agriculture at the end of the Republic led to a conversion of the land to pasture, and later the unsettled state of affairs consequent on the fall of the Roman Empire resulted in neglect of the watercourses.
According to the returns for 1905, about 50% of the area was occupied by arable land, 10% by meadow-land and pasture and 30% by forest.
There is a considerable extent of pasture land, and the rearing of cattle, sheep, pigs and goats is largely practised.
Though the Boeotian climate suffered from the exhalations of Copais, which produced a heavy atmosphere with foggy winters and sultry summers, its rich soil was suited alike for crops, plantations and pasture; the CopaIs plain, though able to turn into marsh when the choking of the katavothra caused the lake to encroach, being among the most fertile in Greece.
The acreage under pasture slightly exceeds that of tillage.
The old Hebrew prohibition of graven images was surely based on a like superstition, so far as it was not merely due to the physical impossibility for nomads of heavy statues that do not admit of being carried from camp to camp and from pasture to pasture.
Good pasture grasses are numerous, but pasture lands are limited.
Only 57% of the area is occupied by arable land and pasture; forests, one-tenth of which are coniferous, occupy 38%.
An insurrection of the Yorkshire peasants, which is to be ascribed in part to the distress caused by the enclosure of the commons on which they had been wont to pasture their cattle, and in part to the destruction of popular shrines, may have caused the king to defend his orthodoxy by introducing into parliament in 1539 the six questions.