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pasturable, a.|ˈpɑːstjʊərəb(ə)l, ˈpæ-|
Also 7 pastorable.
[f. pasture n. or v. + -able: cf. obs. F. pasturable (1534 in Godef., also in Cotgr.).]
That may be pastured; fit for pasture; affording pasture.
1577Harrison England i. viii. in Holinshed Chron. I. 14/1 The South part is pasturable and breedeth Conyes. 1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 292 We pitched our Tents in a pastorable plaine. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. iii. 34 All these species, of pasturable common, may be and usually are limited as to number and time. 1840Fraser's Mag. XXII. 605 Some forty or fifty acres, arable or pasturable.
Hence pasturaˈbility.
1879Athenæum No. 2696. 817 According to the arability, or, if we may coin a new word, pasturability of the land. |