aftergrass
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See also: after-grass
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
aftergrass (usually uncountable, plural aftergrasses)
- The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.
- Synonyms: aftermath, eddish, fog, (obsolete) after-eatage
- 1614, Gervase Markham, chapter 7, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman[1], London: John Browne, page 99:
- For the ordinarie times of foddring your fat cattell […] if they féede abroad, and take the benefit of Foggs and after-grasse, then to fodder them Morning, Euening, and high-noone is fully sufficient.
- 1820, William Wordsworth, The River Duddon[2], London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, pages 44–45:
- This recess, towards the close of September, when the after-grass of the meadows is still a fresh green, with the leaves of many of the trees faded, but perhaps none fallen, is truly enchanting.
- 1974, John McGahern, The Leavetaking[3], Boston: Little, Brown, Part 1, p. 68:
- The cool silk of aftergrass under her bare feet
Translations[edit]
grass that grows after the first crop
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