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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
silage
noun
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▪ As it is the hay and silage season, we had been going non-stop since dawn.
▪ During winter Mr Smith should have fed his stock 60 bales of silage.
▪ How much land must you commit to arable rotation, and how much must be laid up for hay or silage?
▪ On a smallholding it may be more practical to carry silage to the stock in yard or cowshed.
▪ Other busy months were June and July with silage and hay making.
▪ Other contract services include straw and silage baling, cultivations and drilling, manure spreading, and grain haulage with two lorries.
▪ They planted corn and hacked it down with machetes for silage.
▪ What are their needs throughout the year - grazing, hay, silage, grain, roots, straw?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Silage

Silage \Si"lage\, n. & v. Short for Ensilage.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
silage

"fodder packed in a silo," 1884, alteration (probably by influence of silo) of ensilage.

Wiktionary
silage

n. fermented green forage fodder stored in a silo. vb. To ensilage.

WordNet
silage

n. fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo [syn: ensilage]

Wikipedia
Silage

Silage is fermented, high-moisture stored fodder which can be fed to cattle, sheep and other such ruminants ( cud-chewing animals) or used as a biofuel feedstock for anaerobic digesters. It is fermented and stored in a process called ensilage, ensiling or silaging, and is usually made from grass crops, including maize, sorghum or other cereals, using the entire green plant (not just the grain). Silage can be made from many field crops, and special terms may be used depending on type (oatlage for oats, haylage for alfalfa – but see below for the different British use of the term haylage).

Silage is made either by placing cut green vegetation in a silo or pit, by piling it in a large heap and compressing it down so as to leave as little oxygen as possible and then covering it with a plastic sheet, or by wrapping large round bales tightly in plastic film.

Silage (band)

Silage was a Christian alternative rock band formed in the 1990s out of Grass Valley, California. Silage produced two albums, Watusi and Vegas Car Chasers on Sub•Lime Records and their parent Essential Records, respectively. The band's lineup for Watusi consisted of Damian Horne, Lance Black, and Shane Black (brothers). Chuck Cummings joined the band before the release of Vegas Car Chasers and stayed on until the eventual demise of the band.

The band was known for their quirky but spiritually relevant lyrics and their constant mix of musical styles.

Usage examples of "silage".

Guizac start to operate the silage cutter, a new machine that Mrs.

Guizac could drive a tractor, use the rotary hay-baler, the silage cutter, the combine, the letz mill, or any other machine she had on the place.

Andy's was what people used to mean when they said general store, a place where you could buy almost anything, workshirts and trousers, caps, ax handles and beads, meal, clocks, soap, boots, candy, blankets, magazines, toys, suitcases, drills and punches, dogfood, paper, hoes and rakes, chicken feed, gasoline cans, silage formula, flashlights, bread .