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nestage en · NOUN

Etymology

From nest + -age.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Nesting; the construction of nests.
    • Owing to increasing numbers and consequent want of room for nestage, the old birds drove away the younger ones, who took refuge in their present abode at Fox's Know, where they have been located about six years. 1868, History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, volumes 4-5, page 223: