after-grass
(ˈɑːftəgrɑːs, æ-, -æ-)
[after- 6.]
The grass which grows after the first crop has been mown for hay, or among the stubble after harvest. (See after-eatage, -feed, -pasture, under after II.)
| 1681 J. W[orlidge] Syst. Agric. 280 About the end of this Month you may Mow your after-grass. 1759 Martin Nat. Hist. II. 104 Their After-grass, of which they make a sort of rank Hay. 1810 Wordsworth Scen. Lakes (1823) 89 The tender green of the after-grass upon the meadows. 1813 Vancouver Agric. Devon 202 The after-grass..is usually fed off. |