† browsagen.
Obsolete.
1. The right or privilege of allowing animals to feed on the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; a payment made for this right or privilege. historical in later use.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights
pannage1392
commonc1405
stint1437
agistmenta1450
intercommon1449
commonty1466
foggage1471
communitya1475
gist1493
commoning?a1509
arrentationc1540
wether gang1561
browsage1570
pasturage1572
feed1575
intercommoner1581
frankfold1609
broouage1610
fellow commoner1612
horsegate1619
frankfoldage1628
shack1629
tatha1641
retropannage1679
levancy and couchancya1691
commonance1701
stinter1701
horse-lease1721
stray1736
goose-gate1739
commonage1792
twinter1846
couchance1886
levance1886
sheep-stray1891
stintholder1894
1570 Duchy of Lancaster Pleadings (P.R.O.: DL 1/81) f. 12 (A.4.b) Lawfullye possessed for terme of dyuers yeares..of the herbage pannage and brusage within the seyd parke of donyngton.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fresange, one hog, or more, due vnto the Maister of the waters, and forrests of Aubigny (and elsewhere) by the farmers of the Mastage and brousage thereof.
1919 J. W. Hamilton & W. T. Waugh Reign of Henry V II. xlvii. 474 The easing charged was ½d. for each porkling, id. for each pig, corresponding amounts being charged for folding sheep or as a browsage in the lord's pasture at the rate of 6d. for a calf, 8d. for a bullock and is. for a beast, payment on this account being known as a herbage or justment.
2. The feeding by animals on the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; the shoots, leaves, and twigs themselves. Cf. browse n.1 1, 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > substance browsed on
browsing1448
browse1552
browse wood1598
browsage1610
cropping1768
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [noun] > browsing
brutting1662
browsage1688
browse1794
browsing1859
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. viii. 16 Grasse and plants fit for broouage, and browsage of sheepe.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 333/2 Broovage or Browsage is feeding of Sheep and Goats.
1796 R. M. Roche Children of Abbey I. i. 6 A craggy precipice..covered with purple and yellow flowers, thyme, and other odoriferous herbs, which afforded browzage to three or four goats.
1856 Justice of Peace 15 Nov. 728 The defendant's valuer estimating it at a fodder or browsage price.
1917 Texas Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 57. 59 The Angora goat..subsists mostly on browsage and weeds that are otherwise a waste.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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