| 单词 | free grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree grass free grass n. chiefly U.S. (now historical) free pasturage, esp. on public lands (cf. free range n.). ΚΠ 1860 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 23 390 Any purchaser within any such area shall have the right of free grass over the whole of the unsold portion of the 8,000 acres. 1888 T. Roosevelt in Cent. Mag. Feb. 510/1 In our northern country we have free grass; that is, the stockmen rarely own more than small portions of the land over which their cattle range. 1950 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 8 Oct. 29/2 The barbed wire fence did put an end to the era of free grass and finished the old-time cowboy. 2000 Toronto Star (Nexis) 23 Jan. t8 In the 1870s, Anglo ranchers with large herds pushed into the Panhandle to exploit the ‘free grass’. < as lemmas |
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