graze

olla laitumella

raapaista

pyyhkäistä, hipaista

napostella The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
puhekieltä To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
Jonathan Swift

a field or two to graze his cows

Cattle graze in the meadows.

The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.

The bird Canada goose is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing.

when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep

the bullet grazed the wall

But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.

to graze ones knee''

The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.