grazier

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a farmer or landholder who raises grazing livestock, especially cattle or sheep

   The grazier moved the sheep to higher pasture when the low fields began to dry.

From Middle English grasiere, an agent noun based on grasen ('to graze'), later remodeled as graze + -ier. The occupational term is especially common in British and Australian English.

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