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arrish, arish|ˈærɪʃ|
Also 6–7 ersh.
[Dialectal variant of eddish. (Cf. OE. ersc-hen = edischen quail.) The retracted r and d of s.w. dialects are scarcely separable.]
(See quot.)
1597Gerard Herbal (1633) 1018 The wheat ershes about Mapledurham. 1674Ray S. & E. Countr. Wds. 65, Ersh, the same that Edish. Sussex. 1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 152 The wheat arish, or stubbles, are in these cases found less to abound with coarse grass, and other unprofitable rubbish. 1851N. & Q. Ser. i. III. 252/1 In Devon a cornfield which has been cut and cleared, is called an ‘arrish.’ 1856E. Capern Poems 72 To bid the skylark o'er the arrish roam. |