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reesk Sc.|riːsk|
Forms: 5 reysk, 6 resk, 9 reisk, reisque, reesk.
[a. Gael. riasg ‘a moor, fen, or marsh; coarse mountain-grass’.]
1. A piece of moorish or mossy ground producing coarse worthless grass or rushes; unproductive soil or land of this description.
1466Reg. Arbroath (Bann. Club) II. 152 The marchis of Gwtheryn..passand eist the Greyn Reysk to Laithan Den. 1540in 5th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 609/1 The..merchis..begynnand at the west in the myddis of the resk betuix the..landis. 1804W. Tarras Poems Gloss. 156 Reesk, ground full of rough-rooted weeds, something like rushes. 1813G. Robertson Agric. Kincardinesh. 317 The greater part of the original soil..is either a moss..or it is, what in this and in the adjacent county of Aberdeen, is provincially called Reisque, or Reisk.
2. Coarse grass growing on moorish ground.
1794Statist. Acc. Scotl. XII. 576 Large tracks of ground producing a coarse kind of grass, called by the country people reesk. 1812D. Souter Agric. Banffsh. App. 59 If a field be cold and canker'd, or overgrown with reesk, year old fauch will agree best.
Hence ˈreesky a., producing reesk.
1804W. Tarras Poems 7 Aft we've seen them fain, Dink owre the bent to the reiskie den. |