pingrass

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pingrass (countable and uncountable, plural pingrasses)

  1. Alternative form of pin grass
    • 1849, Joseph Warren Revere, Joseph Nerée Balestier, A Tour of Duty in California:
      Besides their weapons and feather blankets, they manufacture from pingrass very excellent baskets, called “coras,” of all sizes, generally of a conical shape, and so finely worked that they hold water.
    • 1927, Charles H. Magee, Antics of Aimee: The Poetical Tale of a Kidnapped Female, page 31:
      I remember the jackass that used to eat pingrass;
    • 1948, Walter Colton, The California Diary [1846-1849], page 191:
      ...she presents a pingrass, on which the cattle still thrive ; and when this fails, it has already dropped a seed even more nutritious than the stem which sustained its bulbous cradle.

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