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ˈcow-quakes dial.
Also cow-quakers.
1. A popular name of Quaking-grass, Briza media.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. 87 Phalaris pratensis is called also Gramen tremulum..about Nantwich, Quakers and Shakers; in some places Cow-quakes. 1690Ray Synopsis (Britten & Holl.), Gramen tremulum cow-quakes dictum producit. 1711J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 380 Great Spanish Cowquakes. a1722Lisle Husb. (1752) 280 The cow-quake grass, or gramen tremulum..is no indication of poor land. 1777J. Lightfoot Flora Scot. I. 99 Cow-quakes, Quaking Grass. 1879in Shropshire Word-bk.
2. According to Halliwell and Wright, a name in the East of England of Common Spurry. |