edgrow
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English edgrow, edgrowe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English *edgrōwe (“regrowth”), from edgrōwan (“to grow back”), suggested by derivative edgrōwung (“a regrowing, a growing again”), equivalent to ed- + grow.
Noun
edgrow (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Aftergrass; eddish.
- 1699 July 29, a letter published in 1894 in the reports of Great Britain's Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts:
- 1699, July 29 — This week has produced much rain here; if the same be at Brampton, will not you please to order the grounds to be watered, which may produce good "edgrow."
- (Can we date this quote?), a record published in 1988 in The Great Awakening in Wales, page 99:
- Similarly, Thomas Bowen of Tyddyn, Llanidloes, complained to Harris about the 'careless sayings' of a brother called Jones who at a society meeting in Montgomeryshire uttered words like the following:
- You shall be turn'd into the Clover, and afterwards into the Edgrow which was brought [= ? bought] with the blood of the Lamb: the Sun circulateth in the Blood of the Lamb.
- Similarly, Thomas Bowen of Tyddyn, Llanidloes, complained to Harris about the 'careless sayings' of a brother called Jones who at a society meeting in Montgomeryshire uttered words like the following:
- 1699 July 29, a letter published in 1894 in the reports of Great Britain's Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts: