grazing
noun
pastureland; a pasture.
grazings
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pluralof grazing.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Livestock are moved from one paddock to another, allowing pastures rest between grazings.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2015
It is a wild country, scrub-covered, antelope-haunted plains rising into desolate hills, but there are many kloofs and valleys with rich water meadows and lush grazings, which formed natural granaries and depots for the enemy.
From The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Having secured this privilege, he posted himself fifteen or twenty miles to the southwest of Tegua, behind a butte which was extensive enough to conceal his wild cavalry, even in its grazings.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
Those having the ditch on the outer side are always the earlier, the ditch being the defence against the cattle that strayed on the unenclosed common or grazings outside.
From The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish
Already the pastures were crowded with stock brought in from distant valleys and grazings.
From The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum
