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grazing

[grey-zing] / ˈgreɪ zɪŋ /


ADJECTIVE
keeping livestock on the range
Synonyms


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The National Trust, which owns the land, was "reviewing" the number of animals grazing the land to ensure visitor safety, animal welfare and the area's ecological health.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

In the village of Budry, cows and horses grazing in the rolling fields give little hint of the heavily militarised Kaliningrad exclave next door.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

The herd was chosen because it is suited to "outdoor conservation grazing, including in wetter grassland habitats", the estate added.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

The site, which Fermi calls Project Matador, is on former grazing land owned by the Texas Tech University System and covers an area more than half the size of Manhattan.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Did I break something or leave a gate open to the grazing pastures without realizing it?

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Livestock are moved from one paddock to another, allowing pastures rest between grazings.

From New York Times May 2, 2015

Instead, the thin sheep of the clansmen, each with its owner's brand to identify it, wander forth to the common grazings, glad that the bloom of living is on Nature again.

From The Black Colonel by James Milne

It is a wild country, scrub-covered, antelope-haunted plains rising into desolate hills, but there are many kloofs and valleys with rich water meadows and lush grazings, which formed natural granaries and depots for the enemy.

From The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Already the pastures were crowded with stock brought in from distant valleys and grazings.

From The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum

The milch cows were fed below, except during the time the farmer's family removed to the distant grazings called sheilings.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme




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