Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To eat up; consume; strip.
- To pasture; graze.
- To feed or pasture; graze.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb rare To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb
graze ,consume grass (or othercrop ) by grazing
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Examples
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'No. But he did say that we could have the flat the Burkhardts are in, come Venus depasture.
The Rolling Stones Heinlein, Robert A. 1952
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In the locality just mentioned "commonable" burgesses, if we may imitate their manner of speech, might depasture two cows and one horse from Old May-day till
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If the bar at the mouth of the river will admit vessels to enter there is a sufficiency of water at all tides to ship horses or stock from alongside the banks without any wharf or anything else, and good country to depasture upon, but the grasses too strong generally for sheep.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay
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"But, my good fellow, if you were possessed of a flock of sheep, you could, by paying a rent, be allowed to depasture it on some squatter's run; and as to being swindled out of your property, the law of the land would protect you from that."
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro
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It is true that in normal years milch cows may depasture the whole year long on the natural pastures, and on this food alone yield milk of magnificent flavour, producing butter and cheese of the highest quality.
Australia, The Dairy Country Australia. Dept. of External Affairs
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The probability is that the impossibility of selection beyond a certain area will be recognised, and special inducements will be offered to persons wishing to depasture unused land in the centre of the continent.
Town Life in Australia Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny 1886
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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.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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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.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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He has the day that is passing over his head; and, if unsatisfied with that, he has the world's six thousand years to depasture his gay or serious humour upon.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848
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They at least shew some of the BLESSINGS the Aborigines experience from being made British subjects, and placed under British laws: -- "I have, on a recent occasion, stated my opinion, which I still entertain, that the proprietor of a run, or, in other words, one who holds a lease or license from the Crown to depasture certain Crown lands, may take all lawful means to prevent either natives or others from entering or remaining upon it."
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