grattenn.
/ˈɡratən/ southern dialect.
A stubble-field, stubble. Also, the after-grass growing in the stubble.
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stub1250
stubble1297
pease stubble?1523
pease-etch1573
gratten1577
stumps1585
brush1686
etch1727
pea stubble1743
pease-eddish1789
stubble1792
shacklea1800
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 149v [Young pigs] may well feede vpon strawe, and grottens.
1625 G. Markham Inrichm. Weald of Kent 10 Vpon that fallow or Gratten, (as we call it,) you shall doe well to sow it with Pease.
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 67 A Gratton..Stubble. Kent.
1675 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 10 295 The grass will be so good immediately after Tillage, that we commonly mow it the first year: This is call'd mowing of gratten.
c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Grotten.
1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Aug. xxii. 101 Now turn your Cows and Hogs into your inclosed Stubble-fields as the first Cattle proper for this Purpose, or, as some call them, into Grattons and Eddishes.
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 1 121 Two acres Wheat Gratten.
1860 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 21 ii. 385 A barley-stubble, or gratten, of the required dimensions.
1884 R. Bridges Return of Ulysses ii. 451 Yet mayst thou see on me The sign of what I have been, and I think Still from the gratten one may guess the grain.
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