unpasturableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpɑːstʃ(ə)rəbl/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈpastʃ(ə)rəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈpæstʃərəb(ə)l/, /ˌənˈpæʃtʃərəb(ə)l/ Now rare.
Not pasturable; that cannot be used as pasture.
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1614 G. Cant et al. in J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen Cal. Carew MSS (1873) 299 (modernized text) Barren mountain and boggy or unpasturable woods.
1785 W. Marshall Planting & Ornamental Gardening 85 Plantations of Alders should..be confined to swampy, low, unpasturable places.
1794 W. Marshall Gen. View Agric. Central Highlands Scotl. 37 Nothing to be seen but stones and dry blades of couch grass or other pallid remains of unpasturable herbage.
1836 Q. Jrnl. Agric. 7 No. 34. 197 Any of these local depressions render the whole meadow unpasturable with safety.
1910 Sat. Rev. 26 Mar. 397/1 (title) The unpasturable fields.
1970 Geogr. Jrnl. 136 202 Unpasturable grass, Nardus stricta, and conditionally pasturable grass, Molinia caerulea.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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