pasturableadj.

a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 8 (MED) In þis Ile also..be many feyre & grete Citees, gret ffische-fflodis, gret pasturable wodes.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. viii. f. 14/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The South part is pasturable and breedeth Conyes.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 292 We pitched our Tents in a pastorable plaine.

1703 in Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. (1893) 178/1 Land..which is pasturable most part of the year.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. iii. 34 All these species, of pasturable common, may be and usually are limited as to number and time.

1840 Fraser's Mag. 22 605 Some forty or fifty acres, arable or pasturable.

1852 J. Wiggins Pract. Embanking Lands 136 Such pasturable verges or grassy fringes as have already been subject to acts of ownership.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 475/2 It is calculated that a twentieth of south-eastern Alaska is available for agriculture, and that of the entire country 100,000 sq. m. are pasturable or tillable.

1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Oct. 680/1 Only about half of the Ministry of Agriculture's official rough grazing area was actually growing pasturable species.

2001 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 15 Mar. This robust, pasturable native of tall-grass prairies is one of about 300 species of perennial grasses commonly known as bluestem.

1879 Athenæum No. 2696. 817 According to the arability, or, if we may coin a new word, pasturability of the land.