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after-grass

after-grass is the alternative spelling of aftergrass.

Meaning of aftergrass

Noun

aftergrass (usually uncountable, plural aftergrasses)

  1. (usually) The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.
    • 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.1614, G[ervase] M[arkham], chapter VII, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman. […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Contayning the Ordering of All Sorts...

Forms of after-grass

pluralafter-grasses

Questions about after-grass

What is after-grass the alternative spelling of?
After-grass is the alternative spelling of aftergrass.

Words near after-grass in the dictionary

  1. after-five
  2. after-game
  3. after-games
  4. after-glow
  5. after-glows
  6. after-grass
  7. after-grasses
  8. after-guard
  9. after-guards
  10. after-hatch
  11. after-hatches

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