Definition of "feeding-ground" [feeding-ground]

• A place where an animal resorts to feed: said of either sea or land, and often in the plural. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "We have been all round the tracks forward and backward over the feeding-ground and can see nothing of him."
• "At two miles came across their feeding-ground; skirted the scrub until we cut our tracks."
• "The bird is capable of a very rapid and long-continued flight, so that it can pass without fatigue over the whole of the district it inhabits, and as soon as the supply of food begins to fail in one place is able to discover a fresh feeding-ground."