pasture
verb
- to put out to graze
noun
- field used to feed cattle
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːst͡ʃə/ / /ˈpæs-/ / [-tjə]
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *péh₂sti Proto-Italic *pāskōr Latin pāscor Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin pastūra Anglo-Norman pastourbor. Middle English pasture English pasture Inherited from Middle English pasture, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, from Latin pastūra, from pāscor + -tūra.
- Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
- Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.”
“So graze as you find pasture.”
- Food, nourishment.
“Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […].”
“It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *péh₂sti Proto-Italic *pāskōr Latin pāscor Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin pastūra Anglo-Norman pastourbor. Middle English pasture English pasture Inherited from Middle English pasture, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, from Latin pastūra, from pāscor + -tūra.
- To move animals into a pasture.
- To graze.
- To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
“The farmer pastures fifty oxen.”
“The land will pasture forty cows.”