单词 | depasture |
释义 | depasturev. 1. transitive. Of cattle: To consume the produce of (land) by grazing upon it; to use for pasturage. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > destroy the growth of plants, etc. slayc1325 bruise?1523 overgrow?1523 nip1575 starve1578 depasturea1599 bedasha1616 victimize1849 a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 35 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) To keepe their cattle..pasturing upon the mountaine..and removing still to fresh land, as they have depastured the former. a1796 Vancouver in A. Young Ess. Agric. (1813) II. 284 The sheep and cow cattle, with which the primest of the grass lands through the country are generally depastured. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 303 The cows are fed in summer on cut clover, without allowing them to depasture it. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. iii. 181 Clayey country, dirty-greenish, as if depastured partly by geese. 2. intransitive. To graze. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > [verb (intransitive)] > graze pasturea1393 depasture1586 grass1596 1586 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 131 My cattell shall remayne and depasture, uppon my groundes..as they are at this instante. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 96 a To sheere all the sheep depasturing within the manor. 1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. (1818) I. 114 Whilst his flocks depastured upon a neighbouring hill. 1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 iii. 263 Over this vast open field..no cattle can depasture. 3. transitive. To put (cattle) to graze; to pasture or feed (cattle). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > pasture leasowc950 feed1382 pasturec1400 grassc1500 graze1564 to put out1600 summer1601 impasture1614 depasture1713 run1767 range1816 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture leasowc950 feed1382 pasturec1400 to put to grass1471 grassc1500 to turn out?1523 graze1564 impasture1614 put1620 depasture1713 run1767 to run out1851 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. v. i. 307 Depasturing their Cattel in the Desarts and uncultivated World. 1809 Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 799/2 The country on which the sheep are depastured..is set out into divisions. 1845 J. Williams Princ. Law Real Prop. ii. iv. 247 A right of depasturing cattle on the land of another. 1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 240 The human spirit..depasturing itself in the fat levels of the Greek literature. 1865 A. Smith Summer in Skye II. 147 We could pleasantly depasture our eyes on the cultivated ground. 4. Of land: to furnish pasturage to (cattle). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > provide pasture [verb (transitive)] > provide pasture for pasture1520 depasture1805 1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 196 This part of the county..now..depastures flocks in whose frame and fleece are visible some strong symptoms of a more fashionable breed. 1844 Port Phillip Patriot (Melbourne) 22 July 3/6 The run will depasture about 4000 sheep. Derivatives deˈpastured adj. ΚΠ 1794 T. Gisborne Walks in Forest v. 37 The bareworn track, and close-depastured plain. deˈpasturing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [noun] > grazing grazingc1440 pascuage1656 benting1670 depasturage1766 depasturing1823 depasturation1841 depasture1856 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [adjective] > grazing depasturing1823 1823 Surtees Hist. Durham III. 239 (note) Bees were of so much importance that..the depasturing of bees was one article of a solemn concordat between two religious houses. 1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 316 Mowing and depasturing are modes of cropping, comprehended in the term management of meadows. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. iii. 183 This is memorable ground..little as the idle tourists think, or the depasturing geese, who happen to be there. deˈpasturable adj. capable of being depastured. ΚΠ 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xi. 282 The depasturable parts of the forest. depastuˈration n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [noun] > grazing grazingc1440 pascuage1656 benting1670 depasturage1766 depasturing1823 depasturation1841 depasture1856 1841 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 ii. 216 It [sc. the winter tare] is sometimes resorted to for depasturation in the spring. depasture n. depasturing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [noun] > grazing grazingc1440 pascuage1656 benting1670 depasturage1766 depasturing1823 depasturation1841 depasture1856 1856 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 17 i. 282 If you watch cows on depasture, you observe them select their own food. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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