soilage

/ˈsɔɪlɪd͡ʒ/

soilage noun: forage cut and fed to animals while still fresh.

Noun (1)

soilage (usually uncountable, plural soilages)

(usually) Forage cut and fed to animals while still fresh.

Synonyms:

greenchop

soilage (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"[.]1976, Irwin Altman, Human Behavior and Environment: Home environments, page 78
- The majority of military surgeons treating acute injuries of the colon tended to exteriorize the wound as an artificial anus to prevent further soilage of the peritoneal cavity.1979, George Tom Shires, Care of the Trauma Patient, McGraw-Hill Companies
State or condition of being soiled.
- Photograph showing soilage (discoloration) of cotton drill […]1985, Gardner S. Haynes, Laboratory Corrosion Tests and Standards: A Symposium by ASTM Committee G-1 on Corrosion of Metals, Bal Harbour, FL, 14-16 Nov. 1983, ASTM International, →ISBN, page 271

soilage (uncountable)

(obsolete) 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...a. 1902, Strype's Stow, book 3, page 148, quoted in 1902, James Foster Wadmore, Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Skinners of London: Being the Guild Or Fraternity of Corpus Christi, page 155

Collections need to be drained, the lung decorticated, and ongoing soilage of the chest controlled.2020, Virginia R Litle, Robert J Canelli, Peri-operative Management of the Thoracic Patient An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, E-Book...
Anal soilage or leakage (usually not solid stool incontinence) is a manifestation noted frequently by both the patient and the examining physician.2012, H. Randolph Bailey, Richard P. Billingham, Michael J. Stamos, Michael J. Snyder, Colorectal Surgery E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences...
Minor incontinence (fecal soilage) includes incontinence to flatus and occasional seepage of liquid stool.2018, Frank J. Domino, Robert A. Baldor, Jeremy Golding, Mark B. Stephens, The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2019, Lippincott Williams &...

plural	soilages

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

From soil (“to dirty”) + -age.

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

What does soilage mean?: Soilage means forage cut and fed to animals while still fresh.
How do you use soilage in a sentence?: Collections need to be drained, the lung decorticated, and ongoing soilage of the chest controlled.
What part of speech is soilage?: Soilage is a noun.
How do you pronounce soilage?: Soilage is pronounced /ˈsɔɪlɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of soilage?: The plural of soilage is soilages.

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