earsh

English

Alternative forms

• arrish, arish, ersh, aish, airish, eddish, errish, hayrish, herrish

Etymology

From Middle English *ersch, from Old English ersc (“a park, preserve; stubble-field”).

The noun earsh (Old English ersc) was used in the south and west of England to describe a stubble field in which wheat, barley or rye had been cut, leaving short stalks or stubble.

Noah Webster in Webster's Dictionary (1828) defines earsh as a plowed field, linking it to arrish but also to eadish, which is described as latter pasture of grass that comes after mowing or reaping, called also eargrass, earsh, etch. See also eddish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æː(ɹ)ʃ/,

Noun

earsh (countable and uncountable, plural earshes)

1. (archaic) stubble field.
   • 1628 Fires oft are good on barren earshes made, With crackling flames to burn the stubble blade’ Translation of Georgics by Virgil, Thomas May,

Anagrams

• Asher, Rahes, Share, Shear, asher, hares, harse, hears, heras, rheas, sehar, sehra, share, shear