quitchgrass

Noun

quitchgrass (uncountable)

1. A species of grass, Elymus repens.
   • If your Hops are old and ill-husbanded, or worn out of heart, then about the beginning of Winter dig about them, and take away as much of the old barren Earth as you can, and apply good fat Mould or Compost to their Roots: If you cannot do it so soon, do not neglect it longer than January, or...1708, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry, Or, The Way of Managing and Improving Land, London, page 135
   • The thoroughfares were overrun with weed
     — Docks, quitchgrass, loathly mallows no man plants.1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV, in Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112