Meanings
noungraffage (plural graffages)
plural graffages
- The scarp of a ditch or moat.
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[…] to keep in repair the long line of boundary fence, to clean the graffages, clear out the moat-like ditches, and see that the hollow-sounding wooden bridges, which formed the sole communication by which the hay wagons could pass to and from the distant meadows, were in proper order to sustain their ponderous annual load.
1837, Mary Russell Mitford, Country Stories
Origin
Compare grave (noun).
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graffage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/graffage
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“graffage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/graffage. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “graffage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/graffage.
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