braird

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots braird, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English brerd (“edge; spike, corner”).

Noun

braird (uncountable)

1. (Scotland) The first shoots of grass or crops.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 9:

     […] as he opened the various window-boards, loving couples flew off like hares surprised too late in the morning among the early braird.

Verb

braird (third-person singular simple present brairds, present participle brairding, simple past and past participle brairded)

1. (Scotland, intransitive) Of grass or crops: to show their first shoots above ground.

Anagrams

• briard