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pasture land
Also pasture-land, pastureland.
Grass land used or suitable for the grazing of cattle or sheep; pasturage. Also fig.
1591in A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (1880) 361 We give and grant all the meadows, pastures, and pasture-lands. 1669J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturae 15 Meadow and Pasture Lands are of..considerable use and advantage to the Husband-man. 1718New Hampsh. Probate Rec. (1914) II. 4, I give and bequeath unto my son..two thirds of my pasture lands. 1786G. Washington Diaries (1925) III. 108, I..directed the best plowman at it to break up about 10 Acres of Pasture land. 1867‘T. Lackland’ Homespun i. 65, I believe in my heart that this same huckleberry field..is a real pasture-land for the spirit of the boy. 1875Swinburne in Examiner 6 Nov., The green pasture lands and golden harvest fields of that noble book of songs. 1885Outing VII. 58/1 Fortunately I live within a mile of real pasture⁓land and forest. 1920W. D. Howells Vacation of Kelwyns 146 They all struck through the woods into a piece of pasture-land beyond. 1922Joyce Ulysses 124 Of bosky grove and undulating plain and luscious pastureland of vernal green. Ibid. 290 Sheep and pigs and heavyhooved kine from pasturelands of Lush and Rush and Carrickmines. 1966New Statesman 23 Dec. 928/2 The pasturelands of higher output and industrial efficiency and competitiveness. |