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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He has the day that is passing over his head; and, if unsatisfied with that, he has the world's six thousand years to depasture his gay or serious humour upon.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander
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
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
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
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)
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