depasture

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DEPASTURE, verb transitive To eat up; to consume. DEPASTURE, verb intransitive To feed; to graze. If a man takes in a horse, or other cattle, to graze and depasture in his grounds, which the law calls agistment-
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