† mix-grassn.
Obsolete. rare.
A fodder crop consisting of a mixture of white clover and other trefoils, and ryegrass.
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fleece1513
white crop1743
green crop1744
root crop1772
row crop1776
robber1777
mix-grass1778
breaking-crop1808
industrial crop1818
foliage crop1831
kharifa1836
scourge-crop1842
overcrop1858
by-crop1880
coppice-with-standards1882
sewage grass1888
trap-crop1899
cleaning crop1900
nurse crop1907
cover crop1909
smother crop1920
stoop crop1928
snatch crop1937
break crop1967
wholecrop1968
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 73 By Mix-grass is here meant a compound of White-Clover, Rye-Grass, and Trefoil.
1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 32 It was..stacked with the mix-grass hay of Norwood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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