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to pasture

4 4.1
To put animals in a field so they can eat the grass
  • verb
  • /ˈpæs.tʃɚ/
translation icon : pastorear
  • Cows have evolved to be on grass and be pastured, meaning they're supposed to roam around and eat grass.
  • pastured cattle

This includes the pastured yolks of farm raised eggs.

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Examples

  • I met her in the woods when Margaret sent me there to pasture the pigs.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Keep these cowboys from pasturing their horses there.

    The Misfits (1961)

  • You need places to pasture your animals.

  • - Pasture the animals, trade.

    Abraham (1993)

  • In fact, where we live now, I pastured two horses for a time.

    Blog text (26)

  • The animals are to be pastured inside the circle of wagons at night, and we were told to double the guard.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • They're pasturing the flock somewhere near here!

    Joseph (1995)

  • Block workers keep their afternoons free to have time to work on their milpas, pasture their sheep, cut firewood, and/or harvest potatoes.

    Academic text (2008)

  • The farmer decided to pasture the cows in the field next to the barn.

  • During the summer, we pasture the sheep in the green valleys.

Synonyms

to graze
vsto pasture
35 2.5

Let animals eat grass in a field

also includes putting animals out to eat in a field
to grass
vsto pasture
  • UK
6.4

To allow animals to eat short green plants on a field

focuses on feeding with plant material while the other means taking animals to a field

Compounds

cow pasture
3 2.0

A field of grass where cows eat

pasture land
2 2.6

Land with grass where farm animals eat

pasture brake
  • UK
9.9

A large rough fern that grows in fields and looks like a weed

How Much

to gorge
12 5.9
to pasture
4 4.1
to nibble
56 2.0

Surface Forms

pasture infinitive
pastured past
pastured past participle
pasturing present participle
pastures third person singular

Etymology

Pasture (verb) comes from the same old Latin root pascere meaning 'to feed' and from pastor meaning 'shepherd'. So to pasture animals is to put them out on land where they can feed.