Pasture vs Forage - What's the difference?
pasture | forage |
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.
Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
* 1819 , :
An act or instance of foraging.
* Shakespeare
* Marshall
* 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in , volume 56, number 3,
(obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population
To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
* 1841 , , The Deerslayer , Chapter 8:
To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
* 1599 , , Henry V , Act 1, Scene 2:
To rummage.
* 1898 , , The Wrecker :
In obsolete terms the difference between pasture and forage
is that pasture is food, nourishment while forage is the demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population.As nouns the difference between pasture and forage
is that pasture is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding while forage is fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.As verbs the difference between pasture and forage
is that pasture is to move animals into a pasture to graze while forage is to search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.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.
Anagrams
* ----forage
English
Noun
(en noun)- “The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage , which he spread before the knight's charger.
- (Dryden)
- He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
- Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
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- ‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars:
Verb
(forag)- The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas.
- And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility.
- Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to forage underneath the bed.
