Cropland vs Pasture - What's the difference?
cropland | pasture |
Land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
* Bible, Psalms xxiii. 2
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Food, nourishment.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
To move animals into a to graze.
To graze.
To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
As nouns the difference between cropland and pasture
is that cropland is arable land while pasture is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.As a verb pasture is
to move animals into a to graze.pasture
English
Noun
(en noun)- He maketh me to lie down in green pastures .
- So graze as you find pasture .
- Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].
Derived terms
* pasture rose * pasture thistleVerb
- The farmer pastures''' fifty oxen; the land will '''pasture forty cows.