ground-ashn.
1. A young ash-plant; an ash sapling (see quot. 1707). Also attributive.
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1664 J. Evelyn Sylva vi. 23 From these low Cuttings come our Ground-ashes, so much sought after for Arbours, Espaliers, and other Pole-Works.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 494 A Lance of tough ground-Ash the Trojan threw.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1708) i. 335 Some cut the young Ashes off about an Inch above the Ground, which causes them to make very large straight Shoots, which they call Ground-Ash.
1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home i. 13 His ground-ash stick under his arm.
2. dialect.
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a. The gout-weed, Ægopodium Podagraria (Withering Brit. Plants 1796)
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b. Angelica sylvestris (Johnston Bot. East. Border 1853).
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