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Meaning of grazing

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

grazing

Pronunciation:/ˈɡɹeɪzɪŋ/

verb

Definitions

  1. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

    Example: 1999: Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).

  2. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

    Example: Cattle graze in the meadows.

  3. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

  4. To eat periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes.

noun

Definitions

  1. Grazeland.

  2. The action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland.