lattermath dial.
(ˈlætəmɑːθ, -mæθ)
Also 6–7 latermath(e, 7 latter-meath, leather-math.
[f. latter a. + math (OE. mǽþ) mowing.]
The ‘latter’ mowing; the aftermath. Also, the crops then reaped.
| 1530 Palsgr. 237/2 Latermathe. 1587 Harrison England i. xviii. (1881) iii. 133 Of such [medowes] as are twise mowed I speake not, sith their later math is not so wholsome..as the first. 1611 Cotgr., Arriere-saison, later math. 1660 Charac. Italy 84 Some Soyls..afford four Latter⁓meaths of Hay. 1692 Tryon Good House-wife vii. (ed. 2) 70 [Butter made in Summer] is much finer than that which is made of Rowings or Leather-Math (as they call it). 1736 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. s.v. Cordus, Fœnum cordum, the latter math. 1813 Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 363 Grasses..which afford..the greatest quantities of spring, summer, latter-math and winter produce. 1880 Jefferies Gt. Estate 128 The aftermath, or, as country people call it, the ‘lattermath’. |