spear-grassn.

Forms: Also speargrass, spear grass.

Etymology: < spear n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspear-grass.

†1. = spearwort n. 3. Obsolete.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > spearwort

spearworta1400

spear-grass1548

spickwort1575

banewort1578

spire-grass1626

butter plate1853

steep1894

1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. H.iij Flamula is the herbe whiche we cal in englishe Sperewurte or spergrasse.

1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ii. 47 Whosoeuer is tormented with the Sciatica, or the gowte: Let them take an herbe called Speregrasse.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 312 Yea, and to tickle our noses with spearegrasse, to make them bleed.

2. One or other of various British grasses, esp. couch-grass ( Triticum repens, Agrostis, etc.).

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > names applied to various types of grass

windlestrawc1000

shear-grass1483

risp1508

sweet-grass1577

star grass1687

reesk1735

bluegrass1751

cheat1784

spear-grass1784

white top1803

prairie grass1812

elephant grass1832

ryegrass1845

wool-grass1854

snow-grass1865

quick1896

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > grasses perceived as weeds > [noun] > couch-grass

quitcheOE

quicka1400

quicken?c1425

couch-grass1578

twitch1588

twitch grass1588

dog grass1597

sea dog's grass1597

quick grass1617

couch1637

wheat-grass1668

scutch1686

quickenings1762

quicken grass1771

spear-grass1784

squitch1785

witchgrass1790

felt1794

dog-wheat1796

creeping wheat1819

quack1822

switch-grass1840

couch-wheat1884

1784 Ann. Agric. 1 197 The soil is light and sandy, and consequently very subject to spear-grass (triticum repens).

1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 3 He founds their lowly house, of withered bents And coarsest speargrass.

1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 40 Let spear-grass and the spiteful thistle wage War on his temples.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 381 Spear-grass, the coarse sour grass..called couch, squitch, and quitch, in other counties.

a1824 B. Holdich Ess. Weeds Agric. (1825) 43 Black-grass (Alopecurus agrestis), also called Black-bent, Spear-grass, Slender Foxtail-grass, etc.

3. North American.

a. One or other of several species of meadow-grass, esp. Poa pratensis.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > meadow grass

meadow grass1597

silver grass1600

lovegrass1702

spear-grass1747

bluegrass1751

wiregrass1751

poa1753

poa grass1759

Suffolk grass1759

fowl-meadow-grass1774

penguin grass1776

mead grass1778

June grass1840

weeping Polly1880

1747 B. Franklin Let. in Wks. (1887) II. 80 The grass which comes in first after ditching is spear-grass and white clover.

1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 152 Mr. Eliot, after draining the swamp [in New England].., sowed it with grass-seed, such as red clover, spear grass,..and herd grass.

1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 445 P. pratensis. Spear Grass... P. nemoralis. Wood Spear Grass... P. annua. Annual Spear Grass.

1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 561 Poa annua... Low Spear-Grass.

b. Some South American grass or plant.

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1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. iv. 142 Impervious underwood of prickly pear, penguin, and speargrass.

c. sea spear-grass, a species of manna-grass.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > manna-grass and allies

sweet-grass1577

manna-grass1759

glyceria1836

sea spear-grass1856

1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 560 Glyceria maritima,..Sea Spear-Grass.

4. Australian. One or other of various grasses belonging to different genera (see quots.).

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > Australasian > other Australian plants

lechenaultia1814

spear-grass1847

Spaniard1851

acroclinium1852

fuchsia1866

scrub vine1866

bayonet grass1868

Scotchman1872

Queensland hemp1876

Spanish soldier1901

bindi-eye1911

scab weed1927

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > Australian grasses

silver grass1600

buffalo grass1784

cane grass1827

porcupine grass1842

tussock-grass1842

spinifex1846

spear-grass1847

rice grass1848

sugar-grass1862

blue star grass1876

wiregrass1883

windmill-grass1889

danthonia1918

Wimmera rye-grass1920

niggerhead1923

1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. ii. 44 Very disagreeable, however, was the abundance of Burr and of a Spear-grass (Aristida).

1865 J. E. Tenison-Woods Hist. Discov. & Exploration Austral. II. 463 (note) The settlers call it spear-grass, and it is, I believe, a species of Anthistiria.

1874 W. H. L. Ranken Dominion Austral. v. 86 Sheep in paddocks cannot be so well kept clear of spear grass.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 90 Heteropogon contortus,..‘Spear Grass’.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 110 These grasses are excellent feeding before the appearance of the inflorescence; afterwards they are known as ‘Spear Grasses’.

1890 C. Lumholtz Among Cannibals 23 A nocuous kind of grass, namely the dreaded spear-grass (Andropogon contortus), which..rendered sheep-raising impossible.

5. A New Zealand umbelliferous plant of the genus Aciphylla.

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1851 in R. B. Paul Lett. fr. Canterb. (1857) 108 The country through which I have passed has been most savage, one mass of Spaniards and spear grass.

1863 S. Butler First Year Canterbury Settl. vi. 81 Spaniard..is sometimes called spear-grass, and grows to about the size of a mole-hill.

6. One or other of several Asiatic grasses or plants.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > Asian grasses

cogon1839

mand1862

illuk1864

spear-grass1864

zoysia1965

1864 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. A place where an elephant could not crush through the thorn-trees,..the creeping plants, and the spear-grass.

1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols v. 72 Here and there were the ghost-like remnants of last year's growth of spear-grass.

1900 F. T. Pollok & W. S. Thom Wild Sports Burma & Assam 378 Coming in contact with spear grass and the fine hair of the bamboo.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	spear-grass
释义	spear-grassn. Forms: Also speargrass, spear grass. Etymology: < spear n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspear-grass. †1. = spearwort n. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > spearwort spearworta1400 spear-grass1548 spickwort1575 banewort1578 spire-grass1626 butter plate1853 steep1894 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. H.iij Flamula is the herbe whiche we cal in englishe Sperewurte or spergrasse. 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ii. 47 Whosoeuer is tormented with the Sciatica, or the gowte: Let them take an herbe called Speregrasse. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 312 Yea, and to tickle our noses with spearegrasse, to make them bleed. View more context for this quotation 2. One or other of various British grasses, esp. couch-grass ( Triticum repens, Agrostis, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > names applied to various types of grass windlestrawc1000 shear-grass1483 risp1508 sweet-grass1577 star grass1687 reesk1735 bluegrass1751 cheat1784 spear-grass1784 white top1803 prairie grass1812 elephant grass1832 ryegrass1845 wool-grass1854 snow-grass1865 quick1896 the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > grasses perceived as weeds > [noun] > couch-grass quitcheOE quicka1400 quicken?c1425 couch-grass1578 twitch1588 twitch grass1588 dog grass1597 sea dog's grass1597 quick grass1617 couch1637 wheat-grass1668 scutch1686 quickenings1762 quicken grass1771 spear-grass1784 squitch1785 witchgrass1790 felt1794 dog-wheat1796 creeping wheat1819 quack1822 switch-grass1840 couch-wheat1884 1784 Ann. Agric. 1 197 The soil is light and sandy, and consequently very subject to spear-grass (triticum repens). 1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 3 He founds their lowly house, of withered bents And coarsest speargrass. 1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 40 Let spear-grass and the spiteful thistle wage War on his temples. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 381 Spear-grass, the coarse sour grass..called couch, squitch, and quitch, in other counties. a1824 B. Holdich Ess. Weeds Agric. (1825) 43 Black-grass (Alopecurus agrestis), also called Black-bent, Spear-grass, Slender Foxtail-grass, etc. 3. North American. a. One or other of several species of meadow-grass, esp. Poa pratensis. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > meadow grass meadow grass1597 silver grass1600 lovegrass1702 spear-grass1747 bluegrass1751 wiregrass1751 poa1753 poa grass1759 Suffolk grass1759 fowl-meadow-grass1774 penguin grass1776 mead grass1778 June grass1840 weeping Polly1880 1747 B. Franklin Let. in Wks. (1887) II. 80 The grass which comes in first after ditching is spear-grass and white clover. 1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 152 Mr. Eliot, after draining the swamp [in New England].., sowed it with grass-seed, such as red clover, spear grass,..and herd grass. 1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 445 P. pratensis. Spear Grass... P. nemoralis. Wood Spear Grass... P. annua. Annual Spear Grass. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 561 Poa annua... Low Spear-Grass. b. Some South American grass or plant. ΚΠ 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. iv. 142 Impervious underwood of prickly pear, penguin, and speargrass. c. sea spear-grass, a species of manna-grass. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > manna-grass and allies sweet-grass1577 manna-grass1759 glyceria1836 sea spear-grass1856 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 560 Glyceria maritima,..Sea Spear-Grass. 4. Australian. One or other of various grasses belonging to different genera (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > Australasian > other Australian plants lechenaultia1814 spear-grass1847 Spaniard1851 acroclinium1852 fuchsia1866 scrub vine1866 bayonet grass1868 Scotchman1872 Queensland hemp1876 Spanish soldier1901 bindi-eye1911 scab weed1927 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > Australian grasses silver grass1600 buffalo grass1784 cane grass1827 porcupine grass1842 tussock-grass1842 spinifex1846 spear-grass1847 rice grass1848 sugar-grass1862 blue star grass1876 wiregrass1883 windmill-grass1889 danthonia1918 Wimmera rye-grass1920 niggerhead1923 1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. ii. 44 Very disagreeable, however, was the abundance of Burr and of a Spear-grass (Aristida). 1865 J. E. Tenison-Woods Hist. Discov. & Exploration Austral. II. 463 (note) The settlers call it spear-grass, and it is, I believe, a species of Anthistiria. 1874 W. H. L. Ranken Dominion Austral. v. 86 Sheep in paddocks cannot be so well kept clear of spear grass. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 90 Heteropogon contortus,..‘Spear Grass’. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 110 These grasses are excellent feeding before the appearance of the inflorescence; afterwards they are known as ‘Spear Grasses’. 1890 C. Lumholtz Among Cannibals 23 A nocuous kind of grass, namely the dreaded spear-grass (Andropogon contortus), which..rendered sheep-raising impossible. 5. A New Zealand umbelliferous plant of the genus Aciphylla. ΚΠ 1851 in R. B. Paul Lett. fr. Canterb. (1857) 108 The country through which I have passed has been most savage, one mass of Spaniards and spear grass. 1863 S. Butler First Year Canterbury Settl. vi. 81 Spaniard..is sometimes called spear-grass, and grows to about the size of a mole-hill. 6. One or other of several Asiatic grasses or plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > Asian grasses cogon1839 mand1862 illuk1864 spear-grass1864 zoysia1965 1864 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. A place where an elephant could not crush through the thorn-trees,..the creeping plants, and the spear-grass. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols v. 72 Here and there were the ghost-like remnants of last year's growth of spear-grass. 1900 F. T. Pollok & W. S. Thom Wild Sports Burma & Assam 378 Coming in contact with spear grass and the fine hair of the bamboo. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1548
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