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pasturage|ˈpɑːstjʊərɪdʒ, ˈpæ-|
Also 7–8 pastorage.
[a. OF. pasturage (12–13th c. in Godef. Compl.), mod.F. pâturage, f. pasturer to pasture: see -age.]
1. The action or occupation of pasturing; grazing.
1579–80North Plutarch (1656) 377 That they should.. make the Countrey a Desart: so that it should never after serve for other thing, but for pasturage of Beasts. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 257 The grasse in the Church-yard may not be used to any pasturage. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 161 ⁋2 For the shelter of woods or convenience of pasturage. 1883H. Martineau Vanderput & S. vi. 100 [He] lamented that this soil was not already fit for pasturage.
2. Grass or other herbage for cattle to feed on; = pasture n. 3.
1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 7 §1 Tithes of cornes, hay, pasturages. 1632Lithgow Trav. ii. 47 Abounding in cornes, wines, bestiall and pastorage. 1702Addison Dial. Medals ii. 124 The riches of the Country consisted chiefly in flocks and pasturage. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. xi. 379 A waste of barren rock, with pasturage only for a few goats.
transf. and fig.1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Mackery End, She was tumbled..into a spacious closet of good old English reading,..and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 92 Pasturage.—Those who are desirous of profiting by their bees should plant, to a certain degree, for their provision.
3. Pasture-land; a piece of grazing land; = pasture n. 4.
a1533Ld. Berners Huon cv. 351 A, ye vyllaynes, this pasturage is myn,..in an yll houre ye put your beestes here to pasture. a1623W. Pemble Zachary in Serm. 1 Cor. xv. 18–19, etc. (1629) 159 Within their proper grounds and pasturages. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments, etc. 254 The Flesh of Oxen, Sheep, and Deer in different Pasturage. 1820Scott Monast. i, The sheep-walks and hills..annexed to the township, to serve as pasturage to the community. 1900G. C. Brodrick Mem. & Impressions 291 They are greatly inferior in forests, pasturages, and picturesque châlets.
4. Sc. Law. The right of pasture.
1693Stair Inst. (ed. 2) ii. vii. §14 Common Pasturage is ordinarly Constitute by the Charter of the Dominant Ground, expressing the Clause with common Pasturage. 1872Bell's Princ. Law Scot. (ed. 6) 446 Pasturage is the right to feed cattle or sheep on another's ground, or on a common.
5. attrib. and Comb., as pasturage-land, pasturage-right.
1897Pullen-Burry Blotted Out xv. 98 Lovely woodland and pasturage land. |