grazing

/ˈɡɹeɪzɪŋ/

verb

  1. 1

    To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

    1999: Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
  2. 2

    To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

    Cattle graze in the meadows.
  3. 3

    To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

  4. 4

    To eat periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes.

  5. 5

    To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.

  6. 6

    To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.

    the bullet grazed the wall
  7. 7

    To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

    to graze one's knee
  8. 8

    To yield grass for grazing.

noun

  1. 1

    Grazeland.

  2. 2

    The action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland.

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