foggage

English

Etymology

From fog +‎ -age; see fog (etymology 2).

Noun

foggage (countable and uncountable, plural foggages)

  1. (UK, archaic) Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter.
    Synonym: fog

Verb

foggage (third-person singular simple present foggages, present participle foggaging, simple past and past participle foggaged)

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) To leave dead or decaying grass on land through the winter.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “foggage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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