grazing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of graze

plural grazings

1. countableuncountableGrazeland.

   The grazing is all parched and withered up, and it is wonderful how cattle get through the winter here as they do.

   1901 June 7, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 7, page 196

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   There are about one thousand common grazings across the Highlands and Islands. Typically 15-20 crofters share in an area of common grazings, on average 400-500 hectares, which is usually hill-land, unsuitable for cultivation.

   2001, Sally Jeanrenaud, Communities and Forest Management in Western Europe

2. countableuncountableThe action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland.

   Here were the MacKays' cattle coming steadily up the track from their daily grazings on the lochside driven by Glen.

   2011, Iain R. Thomson, Isolation Shepherd

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   That story begins in rural Wyoming in 1963, when drifters Ennis and Jack are hired by a local rancher to herd sheep through grazing ground on the titular Brokeback Mountain.

   2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2025