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graziery|ˈgreɪʒ(ɪ)ərɪ|
Also 8 grasery, grazery.
[f. grazier: see -ery.]
a. The business of a grazier; the grazing of cattle.
b. Grazing-ground, pasture. rare.
1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope II. 288 Where the Governour Adrian van der Stel had for some time a grasiery. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 341 In the territory of Pasto, grasiery is a very profitable article. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. III. 777 Grasery is the principal occupation. Ibid. 580 The inhabitants derive their principal subsistence from grazery. 1799W. Tooke View Russian Emp. II. 98 Sedulously attending to agriculture, graziery, and even to mining. c1843Carlyle Hist. Sk. Jas. I & Chas. I (1898) 58 Fishing, fowling, graziery and peaceable cutting of peat. |