shrogn.
northern dialect.
A bush; also plural underwood.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood
ronea1300
underwooda1325
rammel1338
brushetc1380
scroga1400
bushailec1400
frithing1429
brushal1430
brushc1440
ronec1440
thevec1440
garsil1483
shroga1500
cablish1594
south-bois1598
undergrowth1600
frith1605
hand timber1664
subbois1664
urith1671
brushwood1732
bush-wood1771
underbrush1775
slop1784
woodiness1796
scrub1805
shag1836
chaparral1845
underbush1849
underscrub1870
sand-brush1871
buck-brush1874
bush1879
horizontal scrub1888
tangle-wood1894
shin-tangle1905
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 145 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.
1601 A. Munday Downfall Earle of Huntington sig. E4 v From Barnsdale shrogs, to Notinghams red cliffes.
1703 Thoresby in J. Ray et al. Philos. Lett. (1718) 336 Shrogs, a company of Bushes, of Hazel, Thorns, briers.
1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ Shrogs, bushes or under~wood.
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