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Definition of Ensile
1. Verb. Store in a silo. "Ensile fodder for the cows"
Definition of Ensile
1. v. t. To store (green fodder) in a silo; to prepare as silage.
Definition of Ensile
1. Verb. To preserve (forage) in a silo. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ensile
1. to store in a silo [v -SILED, -SILING, -SILES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ensile
Literary usage of Ensile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"t veen Aberdeen and the ensile of Strathbogie. The stipulations under which this
meeting took place were strongly characteristic of a semi-barbarous state ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"ensile. To ensile a bawk, to pass a thread in some way under the beak and through
the eyelid, so as to hinder the sight. ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"t veen Aberdeen and the ensile of Strathbogie. The stipulations under which this
meeting took place were strongly characteristic of a semi-barbarous state ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"ensile. To ensile a bawk, to pass a thread in some way under the beak and through
the eyelid, so as to hinder the sight. ..."
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