pasture
noun
an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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It is a buffalo calf left cached by the mother, who has gone to the watering-place or is pasturing with the drove.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut