English

Alternative forms

• edgrew

Noun

edgrow ‎(uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Aftergrass; eddish.
   • 1699 July 29, a letter published in 1894 in the reports of Great Britain's Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts:

     1699, July 29 — This week has produced much rain here; if the same be at Brampton, will not you please to order the grounds to be watered, which may produce good "edgrow."

   • (Can we date this quote?), a record published in 1988 in The Great Awakening in Wales, page 99:

     Similarly, Thomas Bowen of Tyddyn, Llanidloes, complained to Harris about the 'careless sayings' of a brother called Jones who at a society meeting in Montgomeryshire uttered words like the following:

     You shall be turn'd into the Clover, and afterwards into the Edgrow which was brought [= ? bought] with the blood of the Lamb: the Sun circulateth in the Blood of the Lamb.

Synonyms

• edgrowth