I.to dig and trench the ground, to prepare the ground, for the planting of vines: “pastinandi agri rationem tradere,” Col. 3, 13, 6; 11, 3, 9: “solum,” Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 159: “vineas,” id. 18, 26, 65, § 240: “pastinatae vineae,” id. 14, 1, 3, § 14; Vulg. Marc. 12, 1.—Hence, pastĭnātum , i, n. (sc. solum), ground dug and trenched; ground prepared for planting the vine, Col. 3, 13, 7: “vineam in pastinato serere,” Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 172; Col. 3, 3, 11: “umidum pastinatum,” id. 3, 16, 1.
pastĭno , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. pastinum,