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单词 verdage
释义

verdagen.

Etymology: < verd- (as in verdure) + -age suffix; introduced by Marshall. Compare French verdage young grain ploughed in as manure.
Obsolete.
‘Green herbage, cut and given to cattle green’ (Marshall).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > cut green fodder
bit?1523
green food1658
greenfeed1754
verdage1775
soil1868
1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 9 June (1778) The weeds are now tender and full of sap, and make very good verdage.
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 74 Lucerne is an excellent Spring-verdage.
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 84 Clover and Tare verdage.

Derivatives

ˈverdage v. Obsolete (transitive) to cut or use as verdage. Also with off.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > eat off crop
to eat off1733
spend1733
verdage1778
to fold off1794
hog1845
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 62 Plow-in or Verdage-off a foul Crop.
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 71 Verdaging the Corn encourages the young Grasses.
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 72 Verdage weedy margins early in Summer.
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