![]() noun military An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.noun agriculture A vertical building, usually circular, used for the storage of grain.See ensilage.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture.To preserve in a silo make silage or ensilage of.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun A pit or chamber in the ground, or a cavity in a rock, or more rarely a warm air-tight structure above ground, for the storing of green crops for future use as fodder in the state called ensilage.Outdoor silos usually require a roof with provision for ventilation. All above-ground silos require doors, which are placed one above another and are often covered with an external shoot down which the silage falls as it is taken out. ![]() Rectangular (and square) silos (preferred inside a rectangular building) are built with studding. The superstructure may be sunk a short distance into the ground. The foundation in either case is of stone laid in cement. Round wooden silos are walled either with staves (see stave silo), or with studding lined and sheathed with boards or inside lathed and plastered with cement. The wooden silo was at first rectangular, but for greater strength and to avoid the spoiling of silage in the corners a round form has been largely adopted.
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