Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Food for horses and cattle from aftermath. See
eddish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Edible growth ofgrass forhorses andcattle , especially that ofaftermath .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
Etymologies
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eat + -age
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Examples
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Directly you were outside the Porta San Zeno the peach-trees began -- acre by acre of bent trunks, whose long branches, tied at the top, took shapes of blown candle-flames: beyond these was an open waste of bents and juniper scrub, which afforded certain eatage for goats.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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In the woods, and below, in the valley bottom, where wind-sown thorns made a natural park, his goats found eatage.
Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892
trivet commented on the word eatage
I say roughage. Or forage.
November 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word eatage
This is what airlines do to passengers before they beverage them.
July 21, 2009