grazed

verb

1. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.“1999: Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).”
2. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)“Cattle graze in the meadows.”
3. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
4. To eat periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes.