eatage

From a corruption (as if < eat +‎ -age) of edige, eddish. More at eddish.

eatage (countable and uncountable, plural eatages)

1. (dated) Edible growth of grass for horses and cattle, especially that of lattermath.
2. The right to let one's animals eat in a certain place; pasturage.
3. (colloquial) food

• after-eatage

• “eatage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.