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noun

Pasture n.

Food; nourishment. (Obs.) "Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous."

Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.

Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage. "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." "So graze as you find pasture."

verb

Pasture v. t. (past & past part. pastured; pres. part. pasturing) To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.

Pasture v. i. To feed on growing grass; to graze.

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Etymology of 'Pasture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pasture" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Door; if any man enters by me he shall be saved and shall go in and go out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they ...

— The Children's Bible • Henry A. Sherman

... unhappiness, too. Men are gregarious; they like to be together. But women gauge them by their own needs, and form dark surmises about these harmless meetings, which are as innocuous and often as interesting as the purely companionable huddlings of sheep in pasture. ...

— 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' AND 'Isn't That Just Like a Man!' • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

... the newcomers were was solved before we reached the river; so we sat and watched the scene so venerable and ancient—the patriarchs moving into the desert, to find new pasture-ground. ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... and he made it; and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship, and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our Maker, for he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of ...

— The Prayer Book Explained • Percival Jackson

... seemed to have forgotten it, but he could say a prayer for her as well as for himself at the shrine by the Spring. He must make haste now, however, for before the June sun should fairly have come up over the tops of the hills he must get his sheep and goats to their pasture on the lower slopes. ...

— Roads from Rome • Anne C. E. Allinson

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