Synonyms:
grazing, shaving, skimming
Meaning: the act of brushing against while passing
Synonyms:
graze, grazing
Meaning: the act of grazing
Usage examples
"No; his ball passed over our heads, grazing mine so closely as to cut off a lock of my hair.
To make things sure as to their animals, they fastened them to stakes driven in the earth, sufficient rope being given them for grazing.
Morrison next occupied the island until he was starved out. Then another man named Thomas took the fatal grazing license, but he did not live on the land.
After the discovery of Gippsland, Pearson and Black first occupied the island under a grazing license, and they put eleven thousand sheep on it, with some horses, bullocks, and pigs.
The practice of agriculture was undergoing a transformation; in all directions grazing was being substituted for tillage, and the number of agricultural labourers was greatly reduced by the change.
In point of grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point-blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket-pistols compared with the formidable engines of the American artillery.
When--free from soldiers, wagons, and the filthy traces of a camp--he saw villages with peasants and peasant women, gentlemen's country houses, fields where cattle were grazing, posthouses with stationmasters asleep in them, he rejoiced as though seeing all this for the first time.