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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 ...
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Earsh
It is written also as arrish, arish, eddish or ersh. Noah Webster describes earsh as a plowed (sic) field linking it to arrish, but also to eadish which is described as latter pasture of grass that comes
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earsh
† earsh Obs. exc. dial. [A slurred pronunc. of eddish; see also arrish.] a. A stubble field. b. = Eddish or aftermath.1622 May Virgil's Georg. (L.) Fires oft are good on barren earshes made. 1875 Parish Sussex Gloss., Earsh, a stubble field; as a wheat earsh, a barley earsh.
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eddish
eddish (ˈɛdɪʃ) Forms: (? 1 edisc, -esc), 6–7 edysche, -ysshe, -ish, 6–8 etch(e, 7–8 eadish (7 esh), (9 dial. eddige, hedditch), 7– eddish. See also earsh, arrish. [Of obscure etymology. Usually identified with OE. edisc park or enclosed pasture (glossed vivarium), with which cf. OE. yddisc, renderin...
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List of Cornish dialect words
after the year 1800, from Cornish language revedh, meaning 'strange', 'astounding', or 'a wonder')
Arish (also written [and alternatively pronounced] arrish
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averish
▪ I. averish n. see average n.3▪ II. ˈaverish, v. Obs. or dial. [f. prec.] To consume the eddish, arrish, or average.Mod. dial. of Burford, Hull, He is going to buy some of our pigs to averish (or haverish) the corn.
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stacklet
† ˈstacklet Obs. rare—1. [f. stack n. + -let.] A small stack (of wheat, etc.).1796 W. H. Marshall West Eng. II. 9 About Bodmin, the Wheat in general seems to be made into ‘arrish mows’, or field stacklets, of about a load each.
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average
▪ I. ˈaverage, n.1 Old Law. Forms: 5– average; Sc. 6 avarage, arage, arrage, aryage, 6–9 arriage. [In OF. average (Godef.) and med. (Anglo-) L. averagium, apparently the same as avera in Domesday Book, explained by Spelman as ‘one day's work which the king's tenants gave to the sheriff.’ In the vern...
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