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grazing

[grey-zing] / ˈgreɪ zɪŋ /


ADJECTIVE
keeping livestock on the range
Synonyms


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His great-grandfather moved to the village and used a patch of land in the nearby peninsula for grazing, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

With fewer grazing animals and less vegetation lost to natural wildfires, biomass accumulated.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 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

These cleared spaces can provide appealing grazing areas for smaller animals.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

A warrior may walk 25 or 30 miles in a day to scout out new grazing land.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

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

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

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

From The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum

Those having the ditch on the outer side are always the earlier, the ditch being the defence against the cattle that strayed on the unenclosed common or grazings outside.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish




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