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shear-grass|ˈʃɪəgrɑːs, -æ-|
Forms: 5 scher-, 6 sheere-, sher-, 7 sheare-, 8 shar(e-, 9 shere-.
[f. shear v.]
A name popularly applied to several kinds of sharp-edged grass or sedge, which are apt to cut the mouths of grazing animals or the hands of a person gathering them. Now only dial.
1483Cath. Angl. 335/1 A Schergrysse (A. Scheregresse), carex. 1551Turner Herbal i. H v, An herbe, whiche we cal in english segge, or shergresse. 1589A. Fleming Virg. Georg. iii. 44 Fed with rough greene leaues, And sheere⁓grasse sharpe or sedge. 1631Capt. Smith Advt. Planters xii. 27 You may have harsh sheare-grasse enough to make hay of. 1790W. H. Marshall Midl. Counties II. 442 Sharegrass, carix hirta; a species of sedge. 1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln. 168 It makes a soil produce a crop of hay, which naturally would only feed rabbits by shar grass. 1884W. Miller Plant-n. 57/2 Shear or Shere Grass. Cladium Mariscus; also some species of Carex. |