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eatage

(ˈiːtɪdʒ)

(Agriculture) dialect Northern English grazing rights

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eatage - bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

forage, pasturage, pasture, grass

fodder - coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop

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It begins with "fields turned up by the plow", in consonance with Jefferson's ideal, and soon expands to "sheep sprinkled over a pasture or turned in on a hillside to crop the stubble and glean a fine rich eatage for themselves".

Civilizando la tierra virgen: el Destino Manifiesto y el culto a la domesticidad en The Great Meadow, de Elizabeth Madox Roberts

(a) ACACIA, CEDELC, DEPEND, EATAGE, GIVING, HABATH, ITZTLI (Web2), KEBECK, LILIAL, MIRIAM (cham), NEMEAN, PEWEEP, REGEAR SALADS, STATUS, SEVERS, TUMULT, YERELY

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Though a better term might be 'concave-edged, non-equilaterally triangular eatages'.