单词 | pastureland |
释义 | pasturelandn. A piece of grassland used or suitable for the grazing of livestock, esp. cattle or sheep; a field, a meadow; land of this kind. Also figurative. 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 1591 in A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (1880) 361 We give and grant all the meadows, pastures, and pasture-lands. 1662 Connecticut Hist. Soc. Coll. XIV. 66 One percell of land..being pasture land. 1718 Will of Abraham Green in H. H. Metcalf & O. G. Hammond Probate Rec. New Hampsh. (1914) II. 4 I give and bequeath unto my son..two thirds of my pasture lands. 1786 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 108 I..directed the best plowman at it to break up about 10 Acres of Pasture land. 1825 A. Cunningham in B. Field Geogr. Mem. New S. Wales 151 It will be centrically distanced between the located pasture-lands on Hunter's River, and our future stock stations on Liverpool Plains. 1875 A. C. Swinburne in Examiner 6 Nov. 1250/1 The green pasture-lands and golden harvest-fields of that noble book of song. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 121 Of bosky grove and undulating plain and luscious pastureland of vernal green. 1966 New Statesman 23 Dec. 928/2 The pasturelands of higher output and industrial efficiency and competitiveness. 1991 Westcoast Logger July 17/2 Marv turns off the road and follows two barely-discernible grassy ruts that wind through pastureland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591 |
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