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pasturage

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Old French pasturage (13c, Modern French pâturage ), from pasturer "to pasture" (see pasture (v.)).\n

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A pasture; land that is used for pasture. 2 The grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock and found in a pasture. 3 The right to graze livestock on a pasture.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land [syn: herbage ] animal food for browsing or grazing [syn: eatage , forage , pasture , grass ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Therefore, every pasturage farm should ideally have a water right sufficient to irrigate twenty acres or so during emergencies. ▪ Wood land yielding 10 swine from the pannage. from the pasturage 7 swine.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pasturage \Pas"tur*age\, n. [OF. pasturage, F. p[^a]turage. See Pasture .] Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture. Grass growing for feed; grazing. The business of feeding or grazing cattle.

Usage examples of pasturage.

The Germans abandoned their immense forests to the exercise of hunting, employed in pasturage the most considerable part of their lands, bestowed on the small remainder a rude and careless cultivation, and then accused the scantiness and sterility of a country that refused to maintain the multitude of its inhabitants.

It could already be seen that, of the numerous valleys branching off at the base of Mount Franklin, three only were wooded and rich in pasturage like that of the corral, which bordered on the west on the Falls River valley, and on the east on the Red Creek valley.

Now, the holding of land upon the hills gave to the Syns, as it did to other Marshmen in like case, a sense of security, for the reclaimed pasturage of Romney Marsh owed its existence to the Dymchurch Wall, which held the sea in check.

The Jackrabbit had rented pasturage there, partially sheltered from the icy blasts, to the Grasshopper and the Wilddog in the winter months, and they were well paid for this in cattle and horses.

Now, however, a fosse and earthen embankment circled the village and the innermost fields, orchards, and pasturage, cut in two spots by the course of the river.

And now even the low-lying foothills in which the elder Hunter had tried to see from homesick eyes a resemblance to the outguard of his own Cumberlands were no longer given over to pasturage.

I to receive all that are offered unto me, I should not leave even the pasturage of two horses for the saints which will come after us.

The Hooded Men were seminomadic, herdsmen and hunters spending much of the summer on the move after game or pasturage.

Croyde was kneeling beside Aubrey, who was lying just clear of the ditch which, with the hedge above it, separated the stubble-field from a stretch of pasturage.

The forced suburbia of these women's lives, the clubby limits of the 1950s in some dead American pasturage, here was a dislocation with certain seductive attributes and balances.

Crossing the river, therefore, they encamped on its northwest bank, where they found good pasturage and buffalo in abundance.

The narrow valley in which they encamped being watered by a running stream, yielded fresh pasturage, and though in the heart of the Bighorn Mountains, was well stocked with buffalo.

Many herding peoples of Africa and Asia shift camp along regular seasonal routes to take advantage of predictable seasonal changes in pasturage.

Sheep and lambs grazed on lea land, and beyond their pasturage lay broken woodland where the forest had been cut back for firewood and timber.

A wind was blowing down the shaft, and far above I fancy I heard, growing fainter and fainter, the bellowing of the mooncalves that were being driven down again from their evening pasturage on the exterior.