ensilage

1. uncountableThe process of producing silage by the fermentation of green fodder.
2. archaicuncountableSynonym of silage.

   An American paper, is summarising the value of ensilage, says that twenty years' experience in the use of the silo has brought out some facts about which all are agreed.

   1901 May 10, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 5, page 136

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   Comparing the ensilage of this season with that produced during the past five years at the station, we can safely say that this ensilage was by far the best yet made at this station.

   1890, Ensilage and Silos, page 72

   Synonyms: silage

present singular third person ensilages · participle present ensilaging · participle past ensilaged · past ensilaged

1. transitiveTo preserve in a silo.

   to ensilage cornstalks