As nouns the difference between graze and cowherd
is that
graze is the act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing while
cowherd is a person who herds cattle; a cowboy.
As a verb graze
is to feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
graze English
Noun
( en noun)
The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
Verb
( graz)
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
* Jonathan Swift
- a field or two to graze his cows
* 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).
(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
- Cattle graze in the meadows.
* Alexander Pope
- The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
* 1993 , John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out (page 41)
- The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing .
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
* Shakespeare
- when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
- the bullet grazed the wall
* 1851 ,
- But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
- to graze one's knee
To yield grass for grazing.
* Francis Bacon
- The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.
Derived terms
* overgraze
Anagrams
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cowherd English
Noun
( en noun)
A person who herds cattle; a cowboy.
Related terms
* bearherd
* cow
* cowboy
* cowgirl
* cowman
* cowperson
* cowpoke
* cowwoman, cow-woman
* goatherd
* gooseherd
* herd
* herder
* herding dog
* herd instinct
* herdsman
* Herdsman (the constellation )
* herdswoman
* neatherd
* hogherd
* horseherd
* oxherd
* swanherd
* swineherd
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