Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Food for horses and cattle from aftermath. See eddish.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.
WordNet 3.0
- n. bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
Etymologies
- eat + -age (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“In the woods, and below, in the valley bottom, where wind-sown thorns made a natural park, his goats found eatage.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eatage’.
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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Tag! You're it.
tag, tags, tagging, Tagalog, baronetage, montage, tagalong, Rabindranath Tagore, uredostage, ragtag and bobtail, voltage, price tag and 96 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 5: Archaic
Those really really old ones...
enow, twelvemonth, eatage, cloathing, whilome, pleasaunce, unperfite, whyleare, faulchion, natheless, 'tis, carle and 4 more...
Tweets
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bilby This is what airlines do to passengers before they beverage them. Jul 21, 2009
trivet I say roughage. Or forage. Nov 20, 2008