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eatage
eatage north. dial. (ˈiːtɪdʒ) [f. eat v. + -age; cf. eddish, which may have been confused.] 1. Grass available only for grazing; esp. the aftermath, or growth after the hay is cut. Also with some defining word, as after-, spring, winter.1641 Best Farm. Bks. (1856) 129 Three landes in the Carre at 16...
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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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after-grass
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 ...
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after-
after- in comb. is used in various relations prepositional, adverbial, and adjectival, not always easy to separate, and in various senses. In some of these the combination is very loose, the use of the hyphen being mainly syntactical, i.e. to show that the grammatical relation between after and the ...
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fog
▪ I. fog, n.1 (fɒg) Also 4, 6–7, 9 fogg(e, 6 Sc. foge, 7, 9 feg, 8 Sc. fouge, fug. [of unknown origin; the Welsh ffwg ‘dry grass’ (O. Pughe), often given as the source, is from Eng.] 1. a. The grass which springs up immediately after the hay-crop has been taken off, aftermath. b. The long grass left...
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fore-
fore-, prefix In OE. the adv. fore (like its equivalent in various other Teut. langs.) was used as a prefix (1) to verbs, giving the additional sense of ‘before’ (either in time, position, order, or rank), and (2) to ns. either forming designations of objects or parts of objects occupying a front po...
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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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