pasture
Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.”
“So graze as you find pasture.”
Food, nourishment.
“Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […].”
“It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.”
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From Middle English pasture, pastoure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, Old French pasture, from Latin pāstūra, from the stem of pāscō (“to feed, graze”).
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