Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A corn- or wheat-field which has been harvested; stubble; eddish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish.
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- noun Alternative form of
earsh .
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Examples
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But it must be observed, there is a difference between "arrish" and
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Putting all these facts together, I am inclined to think that "arrish" must first mean "land for tillage;" and that the connexion of the word with
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And again, while I am quite familiar with the word "arrish," I never heard "arrishers," and I believe it is unknown in Devonshire.
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Now arrish-mows -- little thatched stacks some eight feet high -- glimmered in the pale gilded stubbles of the fields; the orchards gleamed with promise; the foliage of the elms was at its darkest before the golden dawn of autumn.
Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911
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She merely glanced at the garnered wheat and thought what a brief time the arrish geese, stuffing themselves in the stubble, had yet to live.
Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911
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On sunny days they scattered and turned it, on wet days they banked it into heaps almost as tall as arrish-mows.
Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The Devonshire designation for this excellent sort of poultry -- known elsewhere as "stubble geese" -- is "arrish geese."
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