grazing

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of graze

noun

1. Grazeland.
   The grazing is all parched and withered up, and it is wonderful how cattle get through the winter here as they do. June 7, 1901, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 7, page 196
   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. (countable, uncountable) The 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