英和和英

名詞

aftergrass (usually uncountable, plural aftergrasses)

1. The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.

   Synonyms: aftermath, eddish, fog, (obsolete) after-eatage

   • 1614, G[ervase] M[arkham], chapter VII, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman. […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Contayning the Ordering of All Sorts of Woods, […]), page 99:

     For the ordinarie times of foddring your fat cattell […] if they féede abroad, and take the benefit of Foggs and after-grasse, then to fodder them Morning, Euening, and high-noone is fully sufficient.

   • 1820, William Wordsworth, “The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets. Notes. Sonnet XVII.”, in The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia; and Other Poems. […], London: […] [Andrew and Robert Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, […], →OCLC, pages 44–45:

     This recess, towards the close of September, when the after-grass of the meadows is still of a fresh green, with the leaves of many of the trees faded, but perhaps none fallen, is truly enchanting.

   • 1974, John McGahern, The Leavetaking, Boston: Little, Brown, part 1, page 68:

     The cool silk of aftergrass under her bare feet

参考

• aftercrop
• afterfeed