单词 | rowet |
释义 | rowetn. Chiefly English regional (southern). Now historical and rare. Grass which grows on cultivated land or pasture after mowing or harvest (cf. aftermath n. 1); (also) coarse, tufted grass growing on wasteland, in ditches, etc. Also (as a count noun): a patch or tuft of such grass. Also attributive, esp. in rowet-grass. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > grasses perceived as weeds > [noun] > rowet roweta1722 rowety grassa1722 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > aftercrop > aftermath edgrewc1440 rowen1440 eddish1468 aftermath1496 lattermath1510 after-pasturec1541 fog1570 roughingsc1575 etch1580 aftergrass1587 eddish-grass1610 edge-growth1610 eatagea1642 lattermowth1661 eegrass1669 ear-grass1686 etch-crop1704 after-mowth1711 afterfeed1714 roweta1722 rowety grassa1722 aftergrowth1766 foggage1775 after-eatage1781 roughet1890 a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 251 I was afraid they would have been much pinched, their rowet being gone. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 306 Our rowet-grass falling off a month sooner than their's in the vale. a1728 W. Kennett MS Coll. Provinc. Words (BL Lansdowne MS 1033) f. 326 Roet or Ruet, pasture ground fed with cattle as distinguisht from hay-ground. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Dairy The foddering season in the former holds so much longer, occasioned by the rowet-grass falling of a month sooner. 1799 J. Banister Synopsis Husb. iv. i. 251 Rowett hay requires less time in the making than the first cut. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 321 Rout, coarse grass, which looks brown and sare in the meadows in spring. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Rowet-grass, the long rough grass in hedges, etc., which cattle refuse; rowan or coarse aftergrass. 1966 G. E. Fussell Eng. Dairy Farmer 1500–1900 i. 39 Cows in a hill country were let go dry just before winter by the best farmers, and foddered in a close for the benefit of the ‘rowet’ (aftermath). 1967 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. 187 Q[uestion]. What do you call a tuft of coarse grass in a field?.. [Berkshire] rowet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1722 |
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