aftergrass

aftergrass

See also: after-grass

English

Etymology

From after- +‎ grass.

Noun

aftergrass (usually uncountable, plural aftergrasses)

1. The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.

   Synonyms: aftermath, eddish, fog, (obsolete) after-eatage

   • 1614, Gervase Markham, The Second Booke of the English Husbandman, London: John Browne, Chapter 7, p. 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, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, pp. 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, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 1, p. 68,

     The cool silk of aftergrass under her bare feet

Translations

grass that grows after the first crop

Azerbaijani: xora Estonian: ädal Finnish: odelma (fi), äpäre (fi), jälkisato French: arrière-foin (fr) m, regain (fr) m Irish: cluain f Norwegian: Bokmål: hå f Old Norse: há f Polish: potraw (pl) m, otawa (pl) f Russian: отава (ru) f (otava)

See also

• aftercrop