shrog north. dial.
[Parallel to scrog; see scr-.]
A bush; also pl. underwood.
| c 1460 Towneley Myst. xiii. 455, I haue soght with my dogys All horbery shrogys. 15. Robyn Hood & Guy of Gisborne 113 They cutt them down two summer shroggs, That grew both under a breere. 1601 Munday Downf. Earl Huntingdon iii. ii. E 4 b, From Barnsdale shrogs, to Notinghams red cliffes. 1703 Thoresby in Ray Philos. Lett. (1718) 336 Shrogs, a company of Bushes, of Hazel, Thorns, briers. 1824 [Carr] Craven Gloss., Shrogs, bushes or under⁓wood. |