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
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
He rented large grazings in Dumfriesshire, where he wintered and grazed the Highlanders, and which, I believe, his relatives still retain.
From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William M'Combie
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
Instead, the thin sheep of the clansmen, each with its owner's brand to identify it, wander forth to the common grazings, glad that the bloom of living is on Nature again.
From The Black Colonel by James Milne
