grazingn.¹

/ˈɡreɪzɪŋ/

Etymology: < graze v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of graze v.¹; pasturing.

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 > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing

pasturea1398

grazingc1440

pasturagea1522

feed1575

running1577

graziery1762

pasturing1819

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 210/2 Gresynge, of beestys fedyngs, pastura.

c1547 Vox Populi i, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 401 Suche and suche, That of late are made riche, Have to, to, to myche By grasyng and regratinge.

1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course iii. f. 28 There is no doubt but that pasturage, grasing, and shepheardrie, were before husbandrie and tillage.

1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 19 The Laplanders live by hunting and grasing.

1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. p. xix The mode of grazing in Romney Marsh and East Kent.

1867 D. G. Mitchell Rural Stud. 275 Where he may watch his Alderneys at their quiet grazing.

†b. figurative in to send a grazing, etc.: = to send to grass, etc. (see grass n.¹ Phrases 2a). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss

congeec1330

turnc1330

putc1350

dismitc1384

refusea1387

repel?a1439

avyec1440

avoida1464

depart1484

license1484

to give (a person) his (also her, etc.) leave?a1513

demit1529

dispatcha1533

senda1533

to send a grazing1533

demise1541

dimiss1543

abandon1548

dimit1548

discharge1548

dismiss1548

to turn off1564

aband1574

quit1575

hencea1586

cashier1592

to turn away1602

disband1604

amand1611

absquatulize1829

chassé1847

to send to the pack1912

1533 T. More Apol. xxxvi, in Wks. 901/2 Hys remembraunce was good inoughe, saue that it went about in grasing til it was beaten home.

a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) ii. iv. 53 Being tyred with his new Peere, he turned her off to grazing.

1688 W. Kennett in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 258 The several counties whither we were sent a grazing.

1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 23 The young Cully sends him out a-grazing like Nebuchadnezzar, with scarce a Shirt to his back.

2. Grazing ground, pasture-land, pasture.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture

leasowc950

leasea1000

pasturea1300

common pasturea1325

grassland1324

laund1340

lea1357

gang1413

feedingc1430

grassa1500

raika1500

beast-gate1507

pasturagec1515

grazing1517

average1537

pasture groundc1537

walk1549

grassing1557

pastural1575

browsing1577

feed1580

pastureland1591

meadow pasture1614

green side1616

range1626

pastorage1628

tore1707

graziery1731

pasturing1759

permanent pasture1771

sweet-veld1785

walk land1797

run1804

sweet-grass1812

potrero1822

pasturage land1855

turn-out1895

lawn1899

1517 Domesday Inclos. (1897) I. 220 Wher ther was ij plowys wele ocupyd, now yt ys retorned to pasteure and grasyng.

1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 181 They doo feede them commonly in the fieldes of rice, for that they haue no other grasinges.

1752 J. Stewart Let. 19 May in Scots Mag. (1753) June 295/1 Having..taken grasings south for the cattle.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 26 The grazings on which their grandsires fed their flocks and herds.

1893 R. Lydekker Horns & Hoofs 147 In open plains, where there is good grazing.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as grazing country, grazing ground, grazing land, grazing rights.

ΚΠ

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §595 If the Ground be Grazing Ground.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 13 A second sort of grazing Ground.

1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 50 Numerous tracts of fine arable and grazing land intervene between the ridges.

1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland Pref. p. v Down to a comparatively recent period, it [sc. England] was a great grazing country.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 254 Their owners commenced to grumble if the Rainbow cattle fed over their grazing rights.

C2.

grazing guard n. a guard placed over the cattle of an army whilst grazing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > person > grazing guard

grass guard1744

grazing guard1893

1893 Westm. Gaz. 19 Dec. 4/2 Captain Borrow and Sir John Willoughby..galloped out of laager..and headed them off back to the grazing guard.

Derivatives

grazing-like adj.

ΚΠ

1835 J. Batman in K. Cornwallis Panorama New World (1859) I. 404 The same open, grazing-like land is every where seen.

Draft additions 1993

transferred. The action of graze v.¹ 2c, 2d colloquial (originally U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > taking surreptitiously > [noun]

surreption1526

conveyancea1529

subductiona1646

snicking1673

abstraction1823

snitching1933

grazing1979

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > eating small amounts > specifically in a supermarket

grazing1979

1979 Daily Tel. 27 Apr. 19/8 In almost any supermarket partially-consumed packages of biscuits, cheese, potato chips and other tasty things are found to provide the tell-tale evidence of ‘grazing’.

1983 Verbatim Autumn 9/1 ‘Grazing’, to us, has a depraved connotation. A ‘grazer’ is usually wild-eyed and clad in rumpled pajamas as he forages from cabinet to cabinet.

1984 Supermarket News 15 Oct. ii. A1/1 Employe practices also affect the grazing problem, Taylor said, among them regular rest breaks.

1986 Artseen Dec. 30/1 So much quality time down the pan waiting on some dozy airhead with attitude to quit grazing, and pick up the goddam handset!

1988 P. Monette Borrowed Time v. 117 The finicky princess-and-pea meals favored by the foodies were suddenly unsubstantial, and we avoided the grazing restaurants in favor of the all-American.

1991 Times 10 July 25/5 The more channels there are, the more ‘grazing’..there is, the better the chance people will watch infomercials.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

grazingn.²

Etymology: < graze v.² + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgrazing.

The action of graze v.²; the touching or rubbing of a surface in passing so as to turn it up or roughen it; abrasion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > [noun] > scratching, scraping, or abrasion

clawing1398

razinga1400

scrattinga1400

scrapingc1440

scrape1483

raze1530

rasure1596

rasion1617

scrub1621

scrubbing1622

scrapelet1625

grazing1698

scratch1765

rake1869

1698 Mem. E. Ludlow I. 59 With the grazing of a Bullet upon the Face of one of the Servants.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 77. ⁋1 By the lucky grazing of a bullet on the Roll of his Stocking.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

grazingadj.¹

/ˈɡreɪzɪŋ/

Etymology: < graze v.¹ + -ing suffix².

That grazes.

a. Of an animal: That feeds on growing grass.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > herbivorous > that graze

grazing1590

pasturing1606

granivorous1646

grass-eating1646

graminivorous1739

grass-feeding1741

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adjective] > snacking or grazing

grazing1590

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. F8^v Whiles he had keeping of his grasing steed.

1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 620 The grazing ox and browzing goat.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxii. 49 A flower privily growing, Hid from grazing kine.

1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 632 He who..killed another man's slave or grazing quadruped.

b. That keeps cattle at grass.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [adjective] > putting animals to graze

grazing1748

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [adjective] > pasturing

grazing1748

1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 5 Great Part of the Lands..are held by the Farmers, Cowkeepers, and Grasing-Butchers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

grazingadj.²

Etymology: < graze v.² + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgrazing.

That grazes; that touches or rubs lightly in passing or moving; abrading.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > lightly along or near a surface

brushing1596

skimminga1685

grazing?1692

shaving1895

?1692 Ad Populum Phaleræ i. 65 More dangerous than grazing Ball that flew.

1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 140 An oblique direction should be given to the loop-holes..to obtain a grazing fire.

1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 58 A grazing iron collar grinds my neck.

1872–6 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) When the trajectory is low and nearly parallel to the ground, and when the projectile strikes the object..at a less angle than 10°, this is termed grazing fire.

1881 Ld. Rayleigh in Nature 17 Nov. 64/2 By giving the light a more nearly grazing emergence.

Derivatives

ˈgrazingly adv. so as to graze.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adverb] > lightly over a surface

skimmingly1847

grazingly1881

1881 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 710 The course of any comet may well chance to be so directed as to carry it straight towards the very centre of the sun, instead of passing grazingly by his orb as did the comet of 1843.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

n.¹c1440

n.²1698

adj.¹1590

adj.²?1692

单词	grazing
释义	grazingn.¹ /ˈɡreɪzɪŋ/ Etymology: < graze v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of graze v.¹; pasturing. 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 > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing pasturea1398 grazingc1440 pasturagea1522 feed1575 running1577 graziery1762 pasturing1819 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 210/2 Gresynge, of beestys fedyngs, pastura. c1547 Vox Populi i, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 401 Suche and suche, That of late are made riche, Have to, to, to myche By grasyng and regratinge. 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course iii. f. 28 There is no doubt but that pasturage, grasing, and shepheardrie, were before husbandrie and tillage. 1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 19 The Laplanders live by hunting and grasing. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. p. xix The mode of grazing in Romney Marsh and East Kent. 1867 D. G. Mitchell Rural Stud. 275 Where he may watch his Alderneys at their quiet grazing. †b. figurative in to send a grazing, etc.: = to send to grass, etc. (see grass n.¹ Phrases 2a). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss congeec1330 turnc1330 putc1350 dismitc1384 refusea1387 repel?a1439 avyec1440 avoida1464 depart1484 license1484 to give (a person) his (also her, etc.) leave?a1513 demit1529 dispatcha1533 senda1533 to send a grazing1533 demise1541 dimiss1543 abandon1548 dimit1548 discharge1548 dismiss1548 to turn off1564 aband1574 quit1575 hencea1586 cashier1592 to turn away1602 disband1604 amand1611 absquatulize1829 chassé1847 to send to the pack1912 1533 T. More Apol. xxxvi, in Wks. 901/2 Hys remembraunce was good inoughe, saue that it went about in grasing til it was beaten home. a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) ii. iv. 53 Being tyred with his new Peere, he turned her off to grazing. 1688 W. Kennett in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 258 The several counties whither we were sent a grazing. 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 23 The young Cully sends him out a-grazing like Nebuchadnezzar, with scarce a Shirt to his back. 2. Grazing ground, pasture-land, pasture. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture leasowc950 leasea1000 pasturea1300 common pasturea1325 grassland1324 laund1340 lea1357 gang1413 feedingc1430 grassa1500 raika1500 beast-gate1507 pasturagec1515 grazing1517 average1537 pasture groundc1537 walk1549 grassing1557 pastural1575 browsing1577 feed1580 pastureland1591 meadow pasture1614 green side1616 range1626 pastorage1628 tore1707 graziery1731 pasturing1759 permanent pasture1771 sweet-veld1785 walk land1797 run1804 sweet-grass1812 potrero1822 pasturage land1855 turn-out1895 lawn1899 1517 Domesday Inclos. (1897) I. 220 Wher ther was ij plowys wele ocupyd, now yt ys retorned to pasteure and grasyng. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 181 They doo feede them commonly in the fieldes of rice, for that they haue no other grasinges. 1752 J. Stewart Let. 19 May in Scots Mag. (1753) June 295/1 Having..taken grasings south for the cattle. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 26 The grazings on which their grandsires fed their flocks and herds. 1893 R. Lydekker Horns & Hoofs 147 In open plains, where there is good grazing. Compounds C1. General attributive, as grazing country, grazing ground, grazing land, grazing rights. ΚΠ 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §595 If the Ground be Grazing Ground. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 13 A second sort of grazing Ground. 1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 50 Numerous tracts of fine arable and grazing land intervene between the ridges. 1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland Pref. p. v Down to a comparatively recent period, it [sc. England] was a great grazing country. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 254 Their owners commenced to grumble if the Rainbow cattle fed over their grazing rights. C2. grazing guard n. a guard placed over the cattle of an army whilst grazing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > person > grazing guard grass guard1744 grazing guard1893 1893 Westm. Gaz. 19 Dec. 4/2 Captain Borrow and Sir John Willoughby..galloped out of laager..and headed them off back to the grazing guard. Derivatives grazing-like adj. ΚΠ 1835 J. Batman in K. Cornwallis Panorama New World (1859) I. 404 The same open, grazing-like land is every where seen. Draft additions 1993 transferred. The action of graze v.¹ 2c, 2d colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > taking surreptitiously > [noun] surreption1526 conveyancea1529 subductiona1646 snicking1673 abstraction1823 snitching1933 grazing1979 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > eating small amounts > specifically in a supermarket grazing1979 1979 Daily Tel. 27 Apr. 19/8 In almost any supermarket partially-consumed packages of biscuits, cheese, potato chips and other tasty things are found to provide the tell-tale evidence of ‘grazing’. 1983 Verbatim Autumn 9/1 ‘Grazing’, to us, has a depraved connotation. A ‘grazer’ is usually wild-eyed and clad in rumpled pajamas as he forages from cabinet to cabinet. 1984 Supermarket News 15 Oct. ii. A1/1 Employe practices also affect the grazing problem, Taylor said, among them regular rest breaks. 1986 Artseen Dec. 30/1 So much quality time down the pan waiting on some dozy airhead with attitude to quit grazing, and pick up the goddam handset! 1988 P. Monette Borrowed Time v. 117 The finicky princess-and-pea meals favored by the foodies were suddenly unsubstantial, and we avoided the grazing restaurants in favor of the all-American. 1991 Times 10 July 25/5 The more channels there are, the more ‘grazing’..there is, the better the chance people will watch infomercials. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). grazingn.² Etymology: < graze v.² + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgrazing. The action of graze v.²; the touching or rubbing of a surface in passing so as to turn it up or roughen it; abrasion. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > [noun] > scratching, scraping, or abrasion clawing1398 razinga1400 scrattinga1400 scrapingc1440 scrape1483 raze1530 rasure1596 rasion1617 scrub1621 scrubbing1622 scrapelet1625 grazing1698 scratch1765 rake1869 1698 Mem. E. Ludlow I. 59 With the grazing of a Bullet upon the Face of one of the Servants. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 77. ⁋1 By the lucky grazing of a bullet on the Roll of his Stocking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). grazingadj.¹ /ˈɡreɪzɪŋ/ Etymology: < graze v.¹ + -ing suffix². That grazes. a. Of an animal: That feeds on growing grass. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > herbivorous > that graze grazing1590 pasturing1606 granivorous1646 grass-eating1646 graminivorous1739 grass-feeding1741 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adjective] > snacking or grazing grazing1590 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. F8^v Whiles he had keeping of his grasing steed. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 620 The grazing ox and browzing goat. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxii. 49 A flower privily growing, Hid from grazing kine. 1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 632 He who..killed another man's slave or grazing quadruped. b. That keeps cattle at grass. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [adjective] > putting animals to graze grazing1748 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [adjective] > pasturing grazing1748 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 5 Great Part of the Lands..are held by the Farmers, Cowkeepers, and Grasing-Butchers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018). grazingadj.² Etymology: < graze v.² + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgrazing. That grazes; that touches or rubs lightly in passing or moving; abrading. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > lightly along or near a surface brushing1596 skimminga1685 grazing?1692 shaving1895 ?1692 Ad Populum Phaleræ i. 65 More dangerous than grazing Ball that flew. 1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 140 An oblique direction should be given to the loop-holes..to obtain a grazing fire. 1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 58 A grazing iron collar grinds my neck. 1872–6 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) When the trajectory is low and nearly parallel to the ground, and when the projectile strikes the object..at a less angle than 10°, this is termed grazing fire. 1881 Ld. Rayleigh in Nature 17 Nov. 64/2 By giving the light a more nearly grazing emergence. Derivatives ˈgrazingly adv. so as to graze. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adverb] > lightly over a surface skimmingly1847 grazingly1881 1881 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 710 The course of any comet may well chance to be so directed as to carry it straight towards the very centre of the sun, instead of passing grazingly by his orb as did the comet of 1843. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹c1440n.²1698adj.¹1590adj.²?1692
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grazingn.1

Compounds

Derivatives

Draft additions 1993

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grazingadj.1

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Derivatives

grazingn.¹

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