depasture
Britishverb
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to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
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(tr) to pasture (cattle or sheep)
Example Sentences
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The reader at Wythburn had for his salary three pounds yearly, a hempen sark or shirt, a whittlegate, and a goosegate, or right to depasture a flock of geese on Helvellyn.
From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel
It has its patches of grass, on which herds depasture, followed by men clothed in sheepskins and goatskins, and looking as savage almost as the animals they tend.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken
In the locality just mentioned "commonable" burgesses, if we may imitate their manner of speech, might depasture two cows and one horse from Old May-day till Martinmas, and four sheep from Martinmas till Candlemas.
From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)
The probability is that the impossibility of selection beyond a certain area will be recognised, and special inducements will be offered to persons wishing to depasture unused land in the centre of the continent.
From Town Life in Australia by Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell
The Act, which practically superseded the Pastoral Leases Act of 1869, continued the right of pastoral lessees to depasture their stock on the resumed areas until they were 61 required for closer settlement.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
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