arrish, arish
(ˈærɪʃ)
Also 6–7 ersh.
[Dialectal variant of eddish. (Cf. OE. ersc-hen = edischen quail.) The retracted r and d of s.w. dialects are scarcely separable.]
(See quot.)
| 1597 Gerard Herbal (1633) 1018 The wheat ershes about Mapledurham. 1674 Ray S. & E. Countr. Wds. 65, Ersh, the same that Edish. Sussex. 1813 Vancouver Agric. Devon 152 The wheat arish, or stubbles, are in these cases found less to abound with coarse grass, and other unprofitable rubbish. 1851 N. & Q. Ser. i. III. 252/1 In Devon a cornfield which has been cut and cleared, is called an ‘arrish.’ 1856 E. Capern Poems 72 To bid the skylark o'er the arrish roam. |