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shrog north. dial.
[Parallel to scrog; see scr-.]
A bush; also pl. underwood.
c1460Towneley Myst. xiii. 455, I haue soght with my dogys All horbery shrogys. 15.Robyn Hood & Guy of Gisborne 113 They cutt them down two summer shroggs, That grew both under a breere. 1601Munday Downf. Earl Huntingdon iii. ii. E 4 b, From Barnsdale shrogs, to Notinghams red cliffes. 1703Thoresby in Ray Philos. Lett. (1718) 336 Shrogs, a company of Bushes, of Hazel, Thorns, briers. 1824[Carr] Craven Gloss., Shrogs, bushes or under⁓wood. |