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ˈsoilage
Also 6–7 soylage.
[f. soil n.3 or v.1 + -age.]
†1. ? A charge or toll for depositing filth or refuse. Obs.
1593Norden Spec. Brit., Cornw. (1728) 98 Salt-ashe,..a pretye market towne... It hath anchorage and soylage of all straunger ships, and the profit of a passage betwene it and Deuon. [Hence in later topographical works.]
†2. Rubbish, dirt, filth; manure. Obs.
1598Stow Surv. iii. (1603) 14 Casting of soylage into the streame. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 379 Moorish ground; in short space raised, by soilage of the Citie vpon them. 1658tr. Porta's Nat. Magic iii. xiv. 93 Apply the Pomegranate-tree roots with this kind of soilage or dunging. 1739‘R. Bull’ tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 49 Your proper Steps from Mire obscene defend; And leave the Dirt and Soilage to your Friend. 1758Binnell Descr. Thames 166 Where the common Rakers of the City use to repose and lay all their Soilage.
3. The act or process of soiling; the condition of being soiled. U.S. rare.
1926Publishers' Weekly 22 May 1679/2 One of the practical problems of retail bookselling is the depreciation of stock due to soilage. |