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grazing

[grey-zing] / ˈgreɪ zɪŋ /


ADJECTIVE
keeping livestock on the range
Synonyms


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The goats are currently grazing separately from the existing cattle herd, but Hartford-Fox said he hoped to graze them together on certain sites once introductions were made.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Environment Bank gives Greenbank Farm lease payments as well as paying the couple to help manage the land through the livestock grazing and hay cutting.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

Thanks to their grazing, he believed his farm was still standing, even if he knew "the surrounding plots were reduced to ash".

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

Even more sobering for me was the sight of another Bentley grazing the hay bales.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Fields of wheat and cotton and grazing animals.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

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

From New York Times May 2, 2015

He rented large grazings in Dumfriesshire, where he wintered and grazed the Highlanders, and which, I believe, his relatives still retain.

From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William M'Combie

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

Having secured this privilege, he posted himself fifteen or twenty miles to the southwest of Tegua, behind a butte which was extensive enough to conceal his wild cavalry, even in its grazings.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest

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

From The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum




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