eegrass dial.
(ˈiːgrɑːs, -æ-)
Also 8 eagrass.
[Of unknown etymology; cf. WSom. eargrass (jɜːgrɑːs) ‘the annual or biennial grasses sown upon arable land’ (Elworthy).]
= eddish, edgrew.
| 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 325 Eddish..or Eegrass, the..Grass that comes after Mowing. 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict., Eddish, otherwise called..Eagrass. 1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life 256 An' we've a-trod the sheenen bliade Ov eegrass in the zummer shiade. |