silagen.
/ˈsʌɪlɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈsaɪlɪdʒ/ Green fodder preserved by pressure in a silo or stack; = ensilage n. 2. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > silage
ensilage1881
silage1884
pit silage1887
silo1889
haylage1960
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Nov. 5/2 The testimony of all who have tried ensilage is that a given quantity of grass converted into silage [etc.].
1894 J. K. Fowler Recoll. Old Country Life xii. 136 The silo was opened and the silage proved excellent.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
silage clamp n. clamp n.3
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1961 Farmers Weekly 6 Oct. 117/1 The loose housing and the self-feed silage clamps.
1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 15/7 (advt.) 131 acre accredited dairy farm..milking parlour, silage clamp.
silage loader n.
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1971 Power Farming Mar. 8/3 The operation of the American silage loader..is explained in the captions to the accompanying photographs.
silage-maker n.
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1924 W. J. Malden Grassland Farming xi. 152 The silage-maker has two points to consider.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 2 Feb. 55/2 Most of the people I have talked to have been experienced silage-makers.
silage stack n.
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1888 Times 24 July 13/1 In a season like the present a good silage stack is about the only means of securing and preserving grass.
b.
silage-feeding n.
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1972 Country Life 15 June 1580/1 Silage feeding to the flock..usually begins just before Christmas.
silage-making n.
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1924 W. 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.
1960 Farmer & 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.
c.
silage-fed adj.
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1972 Country Life 15 June 1580/3 It is usually the practice in silage-fed flocks to introduce a cereal supplement just before lambing.
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silage cutter n. a stationary machine for chopping a crop into short lengths for silage and elevating it into a silo; also, a silage harvester.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > machine to cut silage
silage harvester1931
silage cutter1962
1962 Trans. Amer. Soc. Agric. Engin. 19 117 (heading) Code for testing silage cutters.
1967 Martin & 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.
silage harvester n. a machine for cutting a standing crop as it travels, chopping it into short lengths for silage, and elevating it into another vehicle.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > machine to cut silage
silage harvester1931
silage cutter1962
1931 J. 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.
1977 Cork Examiner 8 June 15/5 (advt.) Used Kidd silage harvester, good working condition, £525.
Derivatives
ˈsilage v. (transitive) to preserve by ensilage.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [verb (transitive)] > gather into barn or granary
garner1474
barn1594
imbarn1610
granell1621
henta1641
granary1862
silage1885
1885 Field 19 Dec. (Cassell) Any grass in excess of the requirements of the stock could be silaged.
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