dial. Also 8 eagrass. [Of unknown etymology: cf. WSom. eargrass ‘the annual or biennial grasses sown upon arable land’ (Elworthy).] = EDDISH, EDGROW.

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1669.  Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 325. Eddish, Eadish, Etch, Ersh or Eegrass, the latter Pasture, or Grass that comes after Mowing or Reaping.

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1725.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., Eddish, otherwise called … Eagrass.

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1844.  W. Barnes, Poems Rural Life, 256.

        An’ we’ve a-trod the sheenen bliade
Ov eegrass in the zummer shiade.

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