Definition of "eatage" []

• Edible growth of grass for horses and cattle, especially that of aftermath. (noun)

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• "Directly you were outside the Porta San Zeno the peach-trees began -- acre by acre of bent trunks, whose long branches, tied at the top, took shapes of blown candle-flames: beyond these was an open waste of bents and juniper scrub, which afforded certain eatage for goats."
• "In the woods, and below, in the valley bottom, where wind-sown thorns made a natural park, his goats found eatage."