grazing
/ˈɡɹeɪzɪŋ/
verb
- 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
To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
“Cattle graze in the meadows.”
- 3
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- 4
To eat periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes.
- 5
To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
- 6
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
“the bullet grazed the wall”
- 7
To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
“to graze one's knee”
- 8
To yield grass for grazing.
noun
- 1
Grazeland.
- 2
The action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland.
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