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sedging Agric. (ˈsɛdʒɪŋ) Also seg(g)ing. [f. sedge v. + -ing1.] A disease incident to oats, characterized by a thickening of the stem near the ground, said to be caused by a grub.1820 Farmer's Mag. XXI. 32 On a Disease in Oats called Seging... This disease..is known by its soon changing the natural ...
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sedged, a. (sɛdʒd) [f. sedge n.1 + -ed2.] † 1. Woven with sedge. Obs. rare—1.1610 Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 129 You Nimphs cald Nayades of y⊇ windring brooks, With your sedg'd crownes. † 2. Her. Of a ‘spear reed’ or flag: Having ‘sedges’ (see sedge n.1 3). Obs.1688 Holme Armoury ii. 57/2 A[rgent] 2 Spear...
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▪ I. sedge, n.1 (sɛdʒ) Forms: 1 sæcg, secg (sech, seic, secgg, segc, segg), 3–5 segge (? gg = (dʒ)), 5 sege, cegge, (7 sage), 5– sedge; β. 6–7 segge (? gg = g), 9 dial. seag, 5–7, 9 dial. seg(g. [OE. sęcg masc., once neut. (cf. LG. segge fem., Br. Wbuch.):—OTeut. type *sagjo-z, f. root *sag- (:—Indo...
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