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eddish|ˈɛdɪʃ|
Forms: (? 1 edisc, -esc), 6–7 edysche, -ysshe, -ish, 6–8 etch(e, 7–8 eadish (7 esh), (9 dial. eddige, hedditch), 7– eddish. See also earsh, arrish.
[Of obscure etymology.
Usually identified with OE. edisc park or enclosed pasture (glossed vivarium), with which cf. OE. yddisc, rendering L. supellex, supellectile, ? household stuff. It is difficult to see how the meaning of the OE. word could have given rise to the mod. sense of eddish, which, though widely diffused in dialects, has not been traced further back than the 15th c.; and the assumption that ‘aftergrowth’ is the unrecorded primary sense of OE. edisc ‘park’ appears too hazardous. The current derivation from OE. ed- ‘again’ suits the modern sense, but (even if this sense were demonstrated for OE.) involves difficulties with regard to form.]
†1. OE. edisc: A park or enclosed pasture for cattle.
a700Epinal Gloss. 147 Broel, edisc [Corpus 324 Broel, edisc, deortuun]. 778Ags. Charter in Sweet O.E. Texts 427 Agellum qui dicitur tatan edisc. 822Ibid. 458 Greotan edesces lond. a1000Ags. Ps. xcix. [c.] 3 We his folc syndan and his fæle sceap, þa he on his edisce ealle afedde.
2. a. Grass (also clover, etc.) which grows again; an aftergrowth of grass after mowing (in first quot. perhaps ‘brushwood’). b. Stubble; a stubble-field.
1468Medulla Gram. in Promp. Parv. 136 Frutex, a styke, a yerde, and buske, vnderwode, or eddysche. 1523Fitzherbert Surv. 2 Yet hath the lorde the Edysshe and the aftermathe. 1573Tusser Husb. xviii. (1878) 43 Soile perfectly knowe, er edish ye sowe. 1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. i. iv, There is little edish or after-pasture. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 325 Eddish, Eadish, Etch, Ersh or Eegrass, the latter Pasture, or Grass that comes after Mowing or Reaping. a1728Bp. Kennett Lansdowne MS. 1033 in Promp. Parv. 135 note, Eddish, roughings or aftermath in meadows, but more properly the stubble or gratten in corn-fields. 1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. v. i. 101 Eddishes, stubble-fields. 1795Vancouver Agric. Survey Essex 50 The bean etche well cleaned in the autumn and sown again with wheat; a small portion of these etches are occasionally sown with tares. 1830Boston (Linc.) Gazette 19 Oct., Pastures have been abundant and the eddishes luxuriant. 1863Lanc. Fents 23 Owd Ned had gone..a-helpen..t' heawse ther hedditch. 1880G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., The young beäs han broke into the clover eddish.
c. = eatage.
1843Ld. Abinger 12 Meeson & Welsby's Rep. LXII, The action is brought..for the eddish or eatage of a field.
3. attrib., as in eddish-grass; eddish-cheese, cheese made from the milk of cows fed on the aftermath; eddish-crop (see quot. 1863); † eddish-hen [f. OE. edisc; see 1], a quail.
c825Vesp. Psalter civ. [cv.] 40 Bedun flæsc & cwom him edeschen. a1300E.E. Psalter civ. [cv.] 40 Þai asked, and come þe edissehenne. 1610Markham Masterp. i. xxxv. 68 Eddish grasse..in some countries is called after⁓maths. 1615― Eng. Housew. ii. vi. (1668) 152 Touching your Eddish cheese, or Winter cheese. 1861G. J. Whyte-Melville Mkt. Harb. 267 A ham..an Eddish cheese, and a few other trifles. 1863Morton Cycl. Agric. (E.D.S.) Eddish-crop (Ess.) is a grain crop after grain. |