Pasture vs Haft - What's the difference?
pasture | haft |
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.
The handle of a tool or weapon.
* Dryden
(Northern English dialect) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.
As nouns the difference between pasture and haft
is that pasture is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding while haft is the handle of a tool or weapon or haft can be (northern english dialect) a piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.As verbs the difference between pasture and haft
is that pasture is to move animals into a to graze while haft is to fit a handle to a tool or weapon.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
* ----haft
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- This brandish'd dagger / I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast.
