Pasture vs Lea - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between pasture and lea

is that pasture is to move animals into a to graze while lea is to tie, bind.

is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.

(en noun)

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

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures .

* Shakespeare

So graze as you find pasture .

(obsolete) Food, nourishment.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:

Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].

* pasture rose * pasture thistle

To move animals into a to graze.

To graze.

To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

The farmer pastures''' fifty oxen; the land will '''pasture forty cows.

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From (etyl) legh, lege, lei "clearing, open ground" from (etyl) .

* (l), (l)

(en noun)

an open field, meadow

*XIX century , Alfred Tennyson,

*:Two children in two neighbor villages

*:Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas ;

(etyl), from (etyl) lier, to bind

(en noun)

Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.

A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

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