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grassed, ppl. a.|grɑːst, -æ-|
[f. grass n.1 and v. + -ed.]
1. Grown or covered with grass. Also grassed-down.
1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope I. 79 The Chamtouers..are possess'd of a fine flat country, well grass'd and watered. 1835J. Batman in Cornwallis New World (1859) I. App. 404 We passed through an open forest..with excellently grassed surface. 1875K. S. Macquoid My Story II. xix. 288 When I reached the grassed slope, I found the frozen grass very slippery. 1884J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis xxxi. 343 A country well grassed with ‘grama’. 1960Times 23 Jan. 11/4 The rest of the grassed-down area. 1967Heretaunga Plains (Ministry of Works, N.Z.) 49/1 A crop rotation programme is normally observed and this provides for grassed-down periods (for grass seed and stock fattening) which improve soil fertility.
2. Golf. Of a golf-club (see quot. 1890).
1878‘Capt. Crawley’ Football etc. 83 (Golf) Grassed, a term used instead of spooned, to signify the backward slope of a club-face. 1883Cassell's Bk. Sports & Past. 51 The golfer's tools..consisting of the play-club, the grassed-driver [etc.]. 1890Hutchinson Golf (Badm. Libr.) 59 The ‘grassed club’ which was in reality nothing but a driver with a slightly filed-back face. |