Horses to horsepower.Some of western China's Tibetan nomads are trading in their horses for motorcycles. They're using their new wheels--which cost less than horses--not only for traditional, tasks like herding livestock, but also for long-distance travel. Some nomads still live in tents and move their herds of yaks and sheep between summer and winter grazing grazing, n See irregular feeding. grazing 1. actions of herbivorous animals eating growing pasture or cereal crop. 2. area of pasture or cereal crop to be used as standing feed. See also pasture. pastures PASTURES, pastures. The land on which beasts are fed; and by a grant of pastures the land itself passes. 1 Thorn. Co, Litt. 202. . But those no longer able to live off the land have moved into relocation centers relocation center, in U.S. history, camp in which Japanese and Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II. Fearing a Japanese invasion, the military leaders, under authority of an executive order, defined (Mar. and must travel to buy supplies. Tupten Jikmay, 29, uses his bike primarily to ride into the nearest town. "It used to take two days on horseback on the back of a horse; mounted or riding on a horse or horses; in the saddle. See also: Horseback ," he says. "Now it is much faster." |
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