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earage

noun

Etymology

From ear + -age.

  1. inherited from *h₂ṓws✻
  2. inherited from *ausô✻
  3. inherited from *auʀā✻
  4. inherited from ēare — “ear”
  5. inherited from ere
  6. suffixed as earage — “ear + age”

Definitions

  1. The size of an animal's ears.

    • Some specimens have been produced with an earage of 27 inches by 7 inches; total weight of specimen about twelve pounds.
    • It is easy to pick out the breeders of the different types, one illustrates hounds with ears that are not only long but broad and heavy and refers continually to hounds with twenty-six to thirty inch earage, […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA