Graze vs Shepherd - What's the difference?
graze | shepherd |
The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
* Jonathan Swift
* 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.
* Alexander Pope
* 1993 , John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out (page 41)
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
* Shakespeare
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
* 1851 ,
To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
To yield grass for grazing.
* Francis Bacon
A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd' s plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
(lb) Someone who watches over]], [[look after, looks after, or guides somebody.
*1769 , Oxford Standard text, , 23, i,
*:The LORD is my shepherd ; I shall not want.
(lb) The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
To watch over; to guide
(Australian rules football) For a player to obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.
As a noun graze
is the act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.As a verb graze
is to feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc) with grass; to furnish pasture for.As a proper noun shepherd is
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(graz)- a field or two to graze his cows
- Cattle graze in the meadows.
- The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
- 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 .
- when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep
- the bullet grazed the wall
- 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 graze one's knee
- 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.
