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pasture
1. n. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
2. n. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
3. n. (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
4. v. To move animals into a pasture.
5. v. (intransitive) To graze.
6. v. To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
The farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.

Example Sentences

When they're put out to pasture they have to die with dignity.

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