grazing

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ.zɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ

grazing

1. present participle and gerund of graze

grazing (countable and uncountable, plural grazings)

1. Grazeland.
   • 1901 June 7, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎^[1], volume 4, number 7, page 196:

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

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

     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.

2. (countable, uncountable) The action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland.
   • 2011, Iain R. Thomson, Isolation Shepherd:

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

   • 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC‎^[2], archived from the original on 2 October 2025:

     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.