green fodder, esp when freshly cut and fed to livestock in a confined area
soilage in American English
(ˈsɔɪlɪdʒ)
noun
green crops cultivated for fodder
Word origin
soil3 + -age
soilage in American English1
(ˈsɔilɪdʒ)
noun
grass or leafy plants raised as feed for fenced-in livestock
Word origin
[soil3 + -age]-age is a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech,occurring originally in loanwords from French (voyage; courage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of”(seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of living or business” (parsonage; brokerage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage; patronage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage)
soilage in American English2
(ˈsɔilɪdʒ)
noun
1.
an act or instance of soiling
2.
the condition of being soiled
Word origin
[1585–95; soil2 + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1585–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: corridor, filament, sine, switch, titular-age is a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech,occurring originally in loanwords from French (voyage; courage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of”(seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of living or business” (parsonage; brokerage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage; patronage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage)
Examples of 'soilage' in a sentence
soilage
Formalization of the tracheal stoma was performed on both patients to prevent soilage of the thyroid bed with tracheal secretions.
Fred M. Baik, Vivian Zhu, Anup Patel, Mark L. Urken 2018, 'Airway management for symptomatic benign thyroid goiters with retropharyngeal involvement:Need for a surgical airway with report of 2 cases', Otolaryngology Case Reportshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468548817301406. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)