eatage north. dial.
(ˈiːtɪdʒ)
[f. eat v. + -age; cf. eddish, which may have been confused.]
1. Grass available only for grazing; esp. the aftermath, or growth after the hay is cut. Also with some defining word, as after-, spring, winter.
| 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (1856) 129 Three landes in the Carre at 16s. 8d. a lande without the eatage. 1723 Lond. Gaz. No. 6209/4 The Winter Eatage..arising from..West Inggs. 1784–1815 A. Young Ann. Agric. XIX. 313 in Old Country Wds. (E.D.S.) There is no grass that will bring so heavy a crop of hay [as clover and rye-grass] and that after an early spring eatage. 1797 Burns Eccl. Law III. 469 The after-mowth or after-eatage. Ibid. 477 Cattle..put and kept upon the same land..for the spring eatage. 1863 Mrs. Toogood Yorksh. Dial., The eatage of the Lanes of the Township will be let by ticket. 1877 Justice Lush in Law Rep. Queen's B. II. 449 The winter eatage of the tenement. |
2. The right of using for pasture.
| 1843 [see eddish 2 b]. 1857 C. B. Robinson Gloss. Best's Farm. Bks. (1856) 184 An increased charge being made for eatage of the fogge. 1869 Pall Mall G. 6 Sept. 5 It is the eatage of the straw rather than the straw itself which belongs to the off-going tenant. 1885 East Cumbrld. News 18 July, To be sold, eatage of fog. |