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pasture (s.xii1)

The form pausture is a cross reference to the following entry:

pasture (s.xii1)

paisture,  pastour,  pastur,  pausture  (pascure  A-N Piety 282 ),
((Latin)pl. pasturis  Rot Parl1 iv 142)  
  FEW:  pastura 7,763a Gdf:  pasture 1 6,36c GdfC:  pasture 10,294a TL: pasture 1 7,474 DEAF:  paistre (pasture)  / pasture 1  DMF:  pâture 1  TLF:  pâture  OED:  pasture n.  MED:  pastur(e n.  DMLBS:  pastura 2140c

s.

1agriculturalpastureland, an area of land for the feeding of domestic animals
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  En paistures de erbes (Latin: In pascuis herbarum) (var. (B: s.xii4/4) pastures) aclinad mei  Camb Ps 35.XXII.2
( 1140-60; MS: 1140-60 )  en terres, en viles, en pastures, en mareis, en bois  Ely Arch 268.3.10
( c.1270; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  il lez (=cows) deyvent bein forager [...] e en prés e en pastures severales sauvement bien garder  HENLEY2 282.c53
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Et ausi est pasture un noun commun a herbage  BRITT i 371
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  quant son dustre le ad mys en pasture, par tut va wacrant  BOZ Cont 21
( 1394; MS: s.xv1 )  bois, preez, pasturs, terres arablez et rivers  Lett & Pet 224.65
lawpasture, the right to feed a certain number of animals on another's soil
( 1260; MS: c.1300 )  alowa il la pasture de primes de moy a tanz de boefs  Brev Plac 9
( 1399-1413 )  ad vendu pasture as diverses gentz du pais, come bien lui luis savant as comunters sufficiant comune  Chancery SC 50
2coll.crops, produce of the field (particularly cereals)
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Deus ki de la terre dure Fait venir blez e pasture  Mirur3 4709
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  E desuz ceste terre si est Gothlande la menur, ke est une isle mult plentivuse en blez e en pastures e en peissun e en mainte manere de marchandise  Liv Regions 27
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  terres sunt aurnés des fruz, bestes engendrent, pastures surdent  Med Trans 352
culin.food, sustenance
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Pur duner a altres pasture, K'il ne faillent pur famine  Mirur1 134va13
commune (de) pasture
lawcommon of pasture, the right appurtenant to a free tenement to feed a certain number of animals on the lord's soil
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  sicum hameletz apurteynauntz as chiefs maners, ou commune de pasture ou de turberie ou de pescherie, ou autres  BRITT i 253
( 1308-09 )  a tort ne luy seoffre avoir comune de pasture en .xviij. acres de terre  YBB Ed II i 104
( 1376 )  ils purront avoir comune pasture pur lour bestes [...] par entre Caleis et Sandegate  Rot Parl1 ii 359
guerpir la pasture de vie
euph.to die, abandon life
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  il pur sa mundeine cure De vie guerpi la pasture  Mirur1 127ra16

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See also:

pastur1  pasturage  pasturel1  pasturel2  pasturel3  pasturer  pasturynge 
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