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Graze

//ɡɹeɪz//

Definitions

1
The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
2
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
3
The act of animals feeding from pasture.
If it be sundown, when the herds are returning from their daily graze in the long grass of the jungle, clouds of dust will be marking their track along every approach to the village […]

1
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
He hath a Houſe and Barn in repair, a Field or two to graze his Cows, with a Garden and Orchard.
2
To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture

Word Origin

From Old English grasian (“to feed on grass”), from græs (“grass”).

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//ɡɹeɪz//

1
The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
2
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
3
The act of animals feeding from pasture.
If it be sundown, when the herds are returning from their daily graze in the long grass of the jungle, clouds of dust will be marking their track along every approach to the village […]

1
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
He hath a Houſe and Barn in repair, a Field or two to graze his Cows, with a Garden and Orchard.
2
To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture

Word Origin

From Old English grasian (“to feed on grass”), from græs (“grass”).

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Cattle graze in the meadows.

3

To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

Shylock: When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep