单词 | pasturage |
释义 | pasturagen. 1. The action or occupation of pasturing animals; the practice or fact of allowing animals to graze. ΘΚΠ 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 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xi. 81 In maner of hyrdis in pasturage On wild montanys he wonnyt all his age. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 488 That they should..make the contry a desert: so that it should never after serve for other thing, but for pasturage of beastes. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 257 The grasse in the Church-yard may not be used to any pasturage. 1682 Consultation 11 July in Rep. St. Helena 1678–83 (Brit. Libr. MS EAP524 1/3/1) 276 Many a sundry inconveniencyes have hapnd by severall psons driveing of other men's Cattle from the place and places of their vsuall feeding and pasturage. 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. 62 The Kockaqua's, as do other nations of the Hottentots, remove with their Cots and Cattle, from one Part to another of their Territories for the Convenience of Pasturage. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 161. ⁋2 For the shelter of woods or convenience of pasturage. 1833 H. Martineau Messrs. Vanderput & Snoek vi. 100 [He] lamented that this soil was not already fit for pasturage. 1845 Atlas (Sydney) 1 555/1 The Squatting Licences which profess upon the face of them to be licenses to use crown land for pasturage for one whole year. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 377/1 ‘Agistment’, in the first instance, referred more particularly to the proceeds of pasturage in the king's forests. 1988 G. Palmer Politics of Breastfeeding ii. 18 The human species has only engaged in agriculture and pasturage for 12,000 to 15,000 years. 2. Pastureland; a piece of grazing land; = pasture n. 1a. 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 c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cv. 351 A, ye vyllaynes, this pasturage is myn,..in an yll houre ye put your beestes here to pasture. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. xviii. 110/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The best and fattest pasturages. a1623 W. Pemble Short Expos. Zachary (1629) ix. 159 Within their proper grounds and pasturages. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 254 The Flesh of Oxen, Sheep, Deer, in different Pasturage. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. i. 84 The sheep-walks and hills..annexed to the Township, to serve as pasturage to the community. 1900 G. C. Brodrick Mem. & Impr. 291 They are greatly inferior in forests, pasturages, and picturesque châlets. 1987 Environment Now Oct.–Nov. 41/3 Tracts of woody country..are, at the same time intermixed with patches of pasturage. 3. a. Grass or other herbage for grazing livestock to feed on; = pasture n. 5. Also (occasionally) in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > pasture pasturea1400 pasturagea1522 bite1768 long crop1787 nibble1875 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > herb or herbaceous plant > [noun] > herbage or grass > cultivated or for pasture pasturea1400 fogc1400 vesture1455 vestiturec1460 pasturagea1522 feed1580 agistment1598 pasture grass1628 ear-grass1686 artificial grass1733 seeds1794 tath1807 green stuff1895 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. x. 20 Quhar merys rakis in thar pasturage. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 7 §1 Tithes of cornes, hay, pasturages. 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 3 It may possibly come from Haver signifying Oates; or from Averia, beasts, being as much as feeding for cattal, pasturage. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. ii. 512 The riches of the country consisted chiefly in flocks and pasturage. 1750 T. Walker Jrnl. 75 Mr. Johnston..sent my Horses to Mr. David Stewards who was so kind as to give them Pastureage. 1795 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. (ed. 2) II. 2 Swamps..which having been filled with water during the winter, now began to produce fine pasturage for the cattle. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 49 Pasturage.—Those who are desirous of profiting by their bees should plant, to a certain degree, for their provision. 1887 J. Ruskin Præterita II. xi. 379 A waste of barren rock, with pasturage only for a few goats. 1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) xiv. 293 Pasturage cut throughout the season at the 3–5 weeks' growth stage might be artificially dried. 2002 Boston Globe (Nexis) 15 May (Food section) f1 Pasturage, the vegetation that a cow, goat or sheep grazes on at the time of milking, affects the flavor of the animal's milk. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. July 29/1 She was tumbled..into a spacious closet of good old English reading,..and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. 1873 J. B. L. Warren Searching Net 36 World, on sweet hinges, run lightly and smooth... Primest of pasturage beckon our tooth! 1939 K. Patchen Coll. Poems (1968) 114 Lost in the golden pasturage of this ‘you’. 4. Law (chiefly Scots Law). The right of pasture. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights pannage1392 commonc1405 stint1437 agistmenta1450 intercommon1449 commonty1466 foggage1471 communitya1475 gist1493 commoning?a1509 arrentationc1540 wether gang1561 browsage1570 pasturage1572 feed1575 intercommoner1581 frankfold1609 broouage1610 fellow commoner1612 horsegate1619 frankfoldage1628 shack1629 tatha1641 retropannage1679 levancy and couchancya1691 commonance1701 stinter1701 horse-lease1721 stray1736 goose-gate1739 commonage1792 twinter1846 couchance1886 levance1886 sheep-stray1891 stintholder1894 1572 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 387 The pasturage of two kye and x shepe pastures wynter and somer. c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 364 Gif ony man alledgis him to have ane heritabill pasturage of gudis or cattel on ane uther man's ground, he may not preive the samin be witnessis bot be writ and speciallie be infeftment. 1693 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) ii. vii. §14 Common Pasturage is ordinarly Constitute by the Charter of the Dominant Ground, expressing the Clause with common Pasturage. 1722 W. Forbes Inst. Law Scotl. I. ii. 139 Common Pasturage, a Right to feed Cattle on another's Ground. c1800 D. Hume Lectures (Stair Soc.) VI. 249 The minister..raised process for designation of grass, out of the lands of an heritor who was subject to a servitude of pasturage. 1998 Irish Times (Nexis) 21 Sept. 15 The camp became permanent after much negotiation with the Turf Club and various holders of rights such as common pasturage. Compounds pasturage land n. 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 1855 Harper's Mag. Mar. 558/2 The horses draggled with mud, the sod of the pasturage lands trampled into mire. 1969 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 59 224 Pasturage lands should be disposed of in units of ‘not less than 2,560 acres’. pasturage right n. ΚΠ 1884 Overland Monthly Dec. 617/1 The ‘book of the ear-marks’, the register of pasturage rights.., the book of allotments of tracts in village and outland to the colonial settlers. 1996 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 2 722 The annual brawl over pasturage rights at Talmast in the Central Atlas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1515 |
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