Herding vs Pasture - What's the difference?
herding | pasture |
An act by which individuals are herded.
* 2010 , Inga Clendinnen, Reading the Holocaust
A hirsel.
* 1930 , Scottish Agriculture
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 verbs the difference between herding and pasture
is that herding is present participle of lang=en while pasture is to move animals into a pasture to graze.As nouns the difference between herding and pasture
is that herding is an act by which individuals are herded while pasture is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.herding
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- These herdings and stabbings and stranglings occurred five hundred years ago, before America felt the withering touch of Europe. Does that exclude them from our concern?
- The whole flock is divided up into seven herdings (the equivalent of the Scottish "hirsels"), and it is through the head shepherd's herding that the only new blood is introduced. Every two or three years some rams are bought at Hawick
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.