Definition of "pasture"

pasture

/ˈpɑːs.tjə/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural pastures
1. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
2. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
  Quotations
  He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalms 23:2
  So graze as you find pasture.
  1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iv]
3. (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
  Quotations
  Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […] .
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  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.
  1831 July 15, “Of the Blood”, in Western Journal of Health‎, volume 4, number 1, L. B. Lincoln, page 38
verb
third-person singular simple present pastures, present participle pasturing, simple past and past participle pastured
1. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
2. (intransitive) To graze.
3. (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

Definition of "pasture"

pasture

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