eatagen.
/ˈiːtɪdʒ/ northern dialect.
1. Grass available only for grazing; esp. the aftermath, or growth after the hay is cut. Also with some defining word, as after-, spring, winter.
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edgrewc1440
rowen1440
eddish1468
aftermath1496
lattermath1510
after-pasturec1541
fog1570
roughingsc1575
etch1580
aftergrass1587
eddish-grass1610
edge-growth1610
eatagea1642
lattermowth1661
eegrass1669
ear-grass1686
etch-crop1704
after-mowth1711
afterfeed1714
roweta1722
rowety grassa1722
aftergrowth1766
foggage1775
after-eatage1781
roughet1890
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 134 3 landes in the Carre att xvjs. viijd. a lande without the Eatage.
1723 London Gaz. No. 6209/4 The Winter Eatage..arising from..West Inggs.
1781 R. Burn Eccl. Law (rev. ed.) 429 The after-mowth or after-eatage.
1784–1815 Ann. Agric. 19 313 in J. Britten Old Country Words (1880) 477 Cattle..put and kept upon the same land..for the spring eatage.
1793 Ann. Agric. 19 313 There is no grass that will bring so heavy a crop of hay [as clover and rye-grass], and that after an early spring eatage.
1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. The eatage of the Lanes of the Township will be let by ticket.
1877 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 2 449 The winter eatage of the tenement.
2. The right of using for pasture.
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1843 Ld. Abinger in R. Meeson & W. N. Welsby Rep. Cases Exchequer LXII. 12 The action is brought..for the eddish or eatage of a field.
1857 C. B. Robinson Rural Econ. in Yorks. Gloss. 184 An increased charge being made for eatage of the fogge.
1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Sept. 5 It is the eatage of the straw rather than the straw itself which belongs to the off-going tenant.
1885 East Cumbrld. News 18 July To be sold, eatage of fog.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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