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

Derived forms: pastures, pastured, pasturing

Type of: feed, fodder, give, grassland

Part of: country, rural area

Encyclopedia: Pasture