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gorse|gɔːs|
Forms: 1–6, 9 dial. gorst, (1, 9 dial. gors, gost), 6–7 gorsse, 7 gosse, 7–9 goss, (9 gorz(e, dial. gurs), 6– gorse. Also pl. 1 gorstas, 4 -ez, 5 -es, 6 gorsses, 9 gorses.
[OE. gorst (gors, gost):—Indogermanic type *ghr̥zdo-, whence L. hordeum barley; cf. the ablaut-variant G. gerst barley. The root-notion of something bristly or prickly is applicable to both plants.]
1. The prickly shrub Ulex europæus; common furze or whin.
c725Corpus Gloss. 97 Aegesta, gors. Ibid. 2162 Voluma, gorst. c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. vii. 16 Ah he somniᵹaþ of þornum winbeᵹęr oþþe of gorstum ficos. c1050Martyrol. (E.E.T.S.) 146 On wildu hors þæt þa hine droᵹon on gorstas ond on þornas. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 99 Waytez gorstez & greuez, if ani gomez lyggez. 1388Wyclif Isa. lv. 13 A fir tre schal grow for a gorst [ether firse]. 1485Nottingham Rec. II. 400 Wodde, gorstes, brome, or any oder thing growyng. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 6 b, Yet may he laufully fall and selle all the wode, brome, gorse, fyrs..and suche other. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 91 b, The branches are full of prickles as the Gorst is. 1610Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 180 Tooth'd briars, sharpe firzes, pricking gosse, & thorns. a1635Corbet Iter Bor. (1647) 342 Loe where Richmond in a bed of gorsse Encampt himself orenight, and all his force. 1692Act 4 Will. & Mary c. 23 §9 No person..shall presume to burne between the second day of February and Twenty fourth of June any Grig Ling Heath Furz Gosse or Ferne. 1784Cowper Task i. 528 The common overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly goss. 1808Scott Marm. iii. i, Sprung from the gorse the timid roe. 1859Jephson Brittany iii. 23, I class gorse among the crops, because it is regularly sown..as winter food for horses. 1878Fraser's Mag. XVIII. 595 Where gorses gleam with golden smile. 1882Ouida Maremma I. 62 Grand level stretches of gorse and brushwood.
2. = juniper.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 72 Iuniperi þæt is gorst. c1265Voc. Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 558/14 Iuniperii, geneiure, gorst. 1879Britten & Holland Plant-n. 214 Gorst... Juniperus communis.
3. attrib. and Comb.
a. simple attrib., as gorse-bud, gorse-bush, gorse-common, gorse-cover, gorse-covert, gorse-fence, gorse-hedge, gorse-tree; gorse-knife, gorse-slasher: used for clearing land of gorse.
b. instrumental, as gorse-covered, gorse-grown. Also gorse-bird, -linnet, the common linnet; gorse-chat, -hatch, -hatcher, -thatcher, local names for the whinchat, stonechat, wheatear, and linnet; gorse-duck (see quot.); gorse-kid, a bundle of gorse.
1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 65 Linnet... From its frequenting downs and open moors abounding in furze or whin, it is called—*Gorse bird, Gorse hatcher, Gorse thatcher,..Gorse linnet.
1860G. H. K. in Vac. Tour. 143 We have..the crackling of the *gorse-buds..to tell us that nature never sleeps.
1813Examiner 26 Apr. 260/2 They..threw him into a *gorse-bush.
1848Zoologist VI. 2290 In G[loucestershire] it [the stonechat] is the *gorsechat.
1860G. H. K. in Vac. Tour. 143 A *gorse common, baking in the summer sun.
1780in Egerton-Warburton Hunt. Songs (1883) Introd. 21 At this meeting a fox was found for the first time in the new *gorse cover.
1848Zoologist VI. 2290 The landrail..in the more western part a ‘gurs’ or ‘*gors duck’.
1895Daily News 18 May 8/6 About five-and-twenty horses entered the ring to begin, but after a big ordeal over *gorse fences..this number was reduced to seven.
1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 311 They now got..into a very rushy, squashy, *gorse-grown pasture.
1848Zoologist VI. 2137 *Gorse-hatch, or ‘gorse-hatcher’ [applied to the female and young of the wheatear].
1888F. Hume Mad. Midas i. iii, Divided into fields by long rows of *gorse hedges.
1661P. Henry Diaries (1882) 79 Two hundred of *Gorse kids [printed Goose Kids] cost 6s. 8d. 1885Daily News 1 Dec. 2/1, I hope nobody knows what it is to sit down recklessly on a gorsekid.
1907‘G. B. Lancaster’ Tracks we Tread vi. 80 Randal kicked aside his *gorse-knife—he had been cutting brush in the gully beyond.
1848Zoologist VI. 2258 The linnet is a ‘*gorse linnet’, a ‘grey linnet’. 1896R. B. Sharpe Handbk. Birds Gt. Brit. 45 The gorse-bushes being such a favourite nesting place that in many places the bird is known as the ‘Gorse’ Linnet.
1938‘R. Hyde’ Nor Years Condemn xiv. 253 We..were given grubbers and *gorse-slashers.
c1440Promp. Parv. 204/1 *Gorstys tre..supra in Fyrrys.
Hence gorsed ppl. a., topped with gorse.
1870Daily News 6 June, He [a horse]..showed the way over the gorsed hurdles, jumping readily from the hand. |