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silage, n.|ˈsaɪlɪdʒ|
[Alteration of ensilage, after silo.]
1. Green fodder preserved by pressure in a silo or stack; = ensilage 2. Also attrib.
1884Pall Mall G. 25 Nov. 5/2 The testimony of all who have tried ensilage is that a given quantity of grass converted into silage [etc.]. 1894J. K. Fowler Recoll. Old Co. Life xii. 136 The silo was opened and the silage proved excellent.
2. attrib. and Comb., as silage clamp (clamp n.3), silage loader, silage-maker, silage stack; silage-feeding, silage-making vbl. ns.; silage-fed ppl. adj.; silage cutter, a stationary machine for chopping a crop into short lengths for silage and elevating it into a silo; also, a silage harvester; silage harvester, a machine for cutting a standing crop as it travels, chopping it into short lengths for silage, and elevating it into another vehicle.
1961Farmers' Weekly 6 Oct. 117/1 The loose housing and the self-feed silage clamps. 1978Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 15/7 (Advt.), 131 acre accredited dairy farm..milking parlour, silage clamp.
1962Trans. Amer. Soc. Agric. Engin. XIX. 117 (heading) Code for testing silage cutters. 1967Martin & Leonard Princ. Field Crop Production (ed. 2) viii. 208 Corn and sorghum row crops for silage are harvested with a field silage cutter or a forage harvester.
1972Country Life 15 June 1580/1 Silage feeding to the flock..usually begins just before Christmas. Ibid. 1580/3 It is usually the practice in silage-fed flocks to introduce a cereal supplement just before lambing.
1931J. B. Davidson Agric. Machinery xxv. 266 To reduce the labor of handling green fodder and to dispense with the use of binding twine, the operations of cutting and harvesting silage are combined in the silage harvester, and the cut silage is delivered to a wagon as it is drawn beside the harvester through the field. 1977Cork Examiner 8 June 15/5 (Advt.), Used Kidd silage harvester, good working condition, {pstlg}525.
1971Power Farming Mar. 8/3 The operation of the American silage loader..is explained in the captions to the accompanying photographs.
1924W. J. Malden Grassland Farming xi. 152 The silage-maker has two points to consider. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 2 Feb. 55/2 Most of the people I have talked to have been experienced silage-makers.
1924W. J. Malden Grassland Farming xi. 149 Heating is really an aid in silage-making, because under the moist heat the stiffest stems yield, and compression becomes easy. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. 73/2 In spite of the great progress in silage-making in the last few years, the amount of permanent grass and temporary leys made into hay in Britain still far exceeded the amount conserved by all the other processes put together.
1888Times 24 July 13/1 In a season like the present a good silage stack is about the only means of securing and preserving grass.
Hence ˈsilage v. trans., to preserve by ensilage.
1885Field 19 Dec. (Cassell), Any grass in excess of the requirements of the stock could be silaged. |