creep-grazing

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noun

a method of pasture management that allows young farm animals (esp lambs) to graze part of the pasture before the adults in the group

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Words nearby creep-grazing

creepage, creeper, creep-feed, creep feeder, creep-feeding, creep-grazing, creepie, creeping, creeping bent grass, creeping eruption, creeping fescue

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How to use creep-grazing in a sentence

Of course that “interesting company,” alongside the grazing goats, will probably number the odd royal and Hollywood celebrity.
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Another acquaintance described Seevakumaran as “a creep,” who would “constantly hit on women.”
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Then, without warning, they shot into the group, grazing two teenage boys with bullets.
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It distorts more and more every day of the month, every year, due to the slow effects of fault creep.
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But generational differences soon creep in, threatening to pull the two couples apart.
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For most of the way the country is flat and fertile, and in good part devoted to Grazing, though considerable Wheat is grown.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
He listened to tales of the Igorrotes, who live in huts like beehives and creep into them like insects.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade
Without warning, we found ourselves foul of a picket-line, and the vague forms of grazing horses loomed close by.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
It was some minutes before the children dared to creep out of the bushes again.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
There, in broad daylight, I saw Maloney deliberately creep closer to the fire and heap the wood on.
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