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🪣 Dirt or filth 🌱 Green animal feed
soilage

soilage

8.9
Fresh green plants cut to feed farm animals without drying
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : forraje
  • The cows were fed soilage freshly cut from the field every morning.

Examples

  • Farmers often use soilage in the summer when grass is abundant and easy to harvest.

  • Feeding livestock with soilage helps maintain their health during the growing season.

  • Farmers often grow soilage to feed their livestock.

  • The cattle enjoyed the fresh soilage provided by the farmer.

  • The cows were fed soilage freshly cut from the field every morning.

  • Farmers often use soilage in the summer when grass is abundant and easy to harvest.

  • The cattle enjoyed the fresh soilage provided by the farmer.

Synonyms

feed
vssoilage
89 1.0

Food for farm animals like cows and chickens

is specific to freshly cut green crops fed directly without drying
forage
vssoilage
4 4.4

Bulky food like grass or hay fed to horses and cattle

is cut and given fresh to livestock rather than grazed or dried
fodder
vssoilage
4 5.3

Food like hay or stalks that farmers give to animals

is fresh green crops cut and fed directly without drying

How Dried

hay
111 1.0
silage
  • Specialized
2 7.9
soilage
  • Archaic
8.9

Surface Forms

soilage singular
soils plural

Morphology

soilage = soil (opaque) = soil + age

Although the form is built from 'soil' plus '-age', the relevant verb sense is specialized and unlikely to be accessible to an average learner from the common meaning of 'soil'.

Etymology

Soilage can also mean fresh green crops fed straight to animals. A helpful way to remember this farming sense is to think of silage, a common farm word for animal feed, and imagine the 'fresh green feed' given directly to livestock.