foggage
English
Etymology
From fog + -age; see fog (etymology 2).
Noun
foggage (countable and uncountable, plural foggages)
- (UK, archaic) Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the (autumn and) winter.
- Synonym: fog
Verb
foggage (third-person singular simple present foggages, present participle foggaging, simple past and past participle foggaged)
- To leave (dead or decaying grass) on land (in the autumn or winter) as foggage.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:foggage.
Further reading
- “fog”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.