rushed, ppl. a.
[f. rush n.1 or v.1]
Overgrown or strewn with rushes. Also, made of rushes.
| 1753 T. Warton Ode Approach of Summer, As slow he winds in museful mood, Near the rush'd marge of Cherwell's flood. a 1851 J. Baillie (Cent.), Rushed floors, whereon our children play'd. 1918 Heal & Son Catal.: Cottage Furnit. 31 Jacobean Chair, in Dark Oak with rushed seat. 1957 A. Clarke Later Poems (1961) 67, I think of rushed bones, Bogland, in furnaces, grown greener. |