[f. prec.] intr. Of corn, etc.: To sprout, to appear above the ground.
c. 1450. Henryson, Fables, 1904 (Anglia, IX. 337). The wickit thocht begynnis for to breird.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, II. ix. [viii]. 60. With schyning skyn new brerd.
1865. Carter’s Gard. & Farmer’s Vade-M, II. After the seed has brairded, it may be well to cover it by hand-hoeing.
1883. Trans. Highl. Soc. Agric., Ser. IV. XV. 38. The potatoes … came up … not quite as straight as a line when brairding.
1884. Times, 20 June, 4. Present sowings [in swedes and turnips] may braird well.
Hence Brairded, Brairding, breirding.
1765. Rutherford, Lett., I. lxxiii. (Jam.). I find a little breirding of God’s seed in this town.
1854. Phemie Millar, 35. The freshly brairded fields.
