depasture

British  

/ diːˈpɑːstʃə /

verb

1. to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)

2. (tr) to pasture (cattle or sheep)

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Example Sentences

The Act, which practically superseded the Pastoral Leases Act of 1869, continued the right of pastoral lessees to depasture their stock on the resumed areas until they were 61 required for closer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.

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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.

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Depasture, de-pas′tūr, v.t. to eat bare.—v.i. to graze.

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Where the husbandman is compelled to stop, nature takes up the task of the cultivator; and then come the chestnut-groves, with their loads of fruit, and the short sweet grass on which cattle depasture in summer, and the wild flowers from which the bees elaborate their honey.

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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.

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