pasture
/ˈpæst͡ʃəɹ/ verb C2- 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.
He/she/it pastures · Past pastured · Past participle pastured · -ing form pasturing
Verb forms
- Base form
- pasture
- He/she/it
- pastures
- Past
- pastured
- Past participle
- pastured
- -ing form
- pasturing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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When Marilla went out that evening to bring the cows from the back pasture, Matthew, who had been hanging about the barns and watching, slipped into the house with the air of a burglar and crept upstairs.
He fled hastily to the remotest corner of the horse pasture lest Marilla should suspect what he had been up to.
It was the way by which the cows were taken to the back pasture and the wood hauled home in winter.
Bell’s spruce grove over the hill and across his big pasture field.
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