† grass-earth Obs.
Also 3 -hurde, 4 -herth(e, 8 -hearth, -hurt.
[OE. gærs-ierþ, f. gærs grass n.1 + ierþ ploughing, earth n.2]
The November ploughing of grass-land.
| c 1050 Rect. Sing. Pers. in Thorpe Ags. Laws I. 434 Toeacan ðam iii æceras to bene & ii to gærs-yrðe. 1235–52 Rentalia Glaston. (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 109 Quos aquietabit per garshurde. c 1300 Battle-Abbey Custumals (1887) 89 Et post festum Sancti Martini, arrabunt domino j acram, que vocatur Grasherþe [printed Grasherxe] qui habent carrucas. 1363 in Kennett Par. Antiq. (1818) II. 137 Ad arandam terram domini..quod vocatur Gras-herth. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Grass-hearth, or grass-hurt, was anciently a custom in some places, for the tenants to bring their ploughs, and do one day's work for their lord. |