Definition of Pasturage

1. Noun. Succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land.

Exact synonyms: Herbage
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant

2. Noun. Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle.
Exact synonyms: Eatage, Forage, Grass, Pasture
Generic synonyms: Fodder
Derivative terms: Forage, Pasture, Pasture, Pasture, Pasture

Definition of Pasturage

1. n. Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.

Definition of Pasturage

1. Noun. A pasture; land that is used for pasture. ¹

2. Noun. The grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock and found in a pasture. ¹

3. Noun. The right to graze livestock on a pasture. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pasturage

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pasturage

pastromi
pastromis
pastry
pastry bag
pastry cart
pastry cook
pastry dough
pastry shop
pastryless
pastrylike
pastrymaker
pastrymakers
pastrymaking
pasts
pasturable
pasturage (current term)
pasturages
pastural
pasture
pasture brake
pastured
pastureland
pasturelands
pastureless
pasturer
pasturers
pastures
pasturing
pasturized milk
pastward

Literary usage of Pasturage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1849)
"The second plea alleged a right of sole pasturage, in gross, for thirty years before the commencement of the suit, (under the stat. 2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 71, s. ..."

2. Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States: With a More by John Wesley Powell, Grove Karl Gilbert, Clarence Edward Dutton, Almon Harris Thompson, Willis Drummond (1879)
"These brooks can be used to better advantage for the pasturage farms as a supply of ... The conditions under which these pasturage lands can be employed are ..."

3. Twenty-seven Years in Canada West: Or, The Experience of an Early Settler by [Samuel] Strickland (1853)
"ONE of the greatest inconveniences belonging to a new settlement, for the first four or five years, is the want of pasturage for your working cattle and ..."

4. The Civil Code of Brazil: Being Law No. 3,071 of January 1, 1916, in Effect by Brazil, Joseph Wheless (1920)
"If not, the provisions of this Chapter shall be observed so far as applicable, if the title from which the communion of pasturage arises does not otherwise ..."

5. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1824)
"How common pasturage may be constituted. the full and exclusive benefit of the grass is, by the express constitution of the servitude, granted to the ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1883)
"... are admirably adapted to the raising of these birds, who need only an inclosed paddock, or grass-field, with sufficient pasturage to sustain them. ..."

7. The Climate of Great Britain: Or, Remarks on the Change it Has Undergone by John Williams (1806)
"On the Increase of pasturage beyond that of Tillage. .A.MONG other causes which powerfully contribute towards forming our clouded atmosphere, ..."

8. Forest and Water by Abbot Kinney (1900)
"In the Pine Mountain reserve, there is rather more pasturage than in the San Bernardino range. ... In the Sierra Madre range there is very little pasturage, ..."

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