[AFTER- 6.] The grass that 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. Martin, Nat. Hist., II. 104. Their After-grass, of which they make a sort of rank Hay.
1810. Wordsworth, Scen. Lakes (1823), 89. The tender green of the after-grass upon the meadows.
1813. Vancouver, Agric. Devon, 202. The alter-grass … is usually fed off.
