soilage

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soilage¹

  • /ˈsɔɪlɪd͡ʒ/

Where it comes from

From soil (“to feed animals fresh-cut forage”) + -age.

noun soilages

  1. uncountable, usually Forage cut and fed to animals while still fresh.

    Similar: greenchop

soilage²

  • /ˈsɔɪlɪd͡ʒ/

Where it comes from

From soil (“to dirty”) + -age.

noun

  1. uncountable Act, process, or instance of soiling. The fear of defilement, violation of self and reification, is revealed by the way the respondents described the burglaries in which there was neither breakage, soilage, or, sometimes, any disorder. In such cases, burglary is called work and is said tot have been "cleanly done"[.]
  2. uncountable State or condition of being soiled. Photograph showing soilage (discoloration) of cotton drill […]

soilage³

  • /ˈsɔɪlɪd͡ʒ/

Where it comes from

From soil (“earth, ground”) + -age (“collection or appurtenance”).

noun

  1. obsolete, uncountable Soil. […] which was pulled down in the year 1549. The bones of the dead, couched u in a Charnel under the Chappel were conveyed from thence to Finsbury Field […] and there laid on a Moorish Ground, in short space after raised by Soilage of the City, upon them to bear Three Wind Mills. The Chappel and Char

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@misc{soilage_2026,
  title = {soilage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soilage},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}