Meaning of quitchgrass | Babel Free

Definitions

A species of grass, Elymus repens.

uncountable

Examples

“If your Hops are old and ill-husbanded, or worn out of heart, then about the beginning of Winter dig⟳ about them, and take⟳ away as much of the old barren Earth as you can, and apply⟳ good fat Mould or Compost to their Roots: If you cannot do it so soon, do not neglect⟳ it longer than January, or February, if the Weather be open⟳, such Winter-dressings being a principal Renewal of decayed Hops; it will likewise kill⟳ the Weeds, Quitchgrass, &c.”

“1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV, in Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112, The thoroughfares were overrun with weed — Docks, quitchgrass, loathly mallows no man plants.”

“1888, Hawaiian Planters’ Monthly, Honolulu: Planters’ Labor and Supply⟳ Co., Volume VII, p. 486, […] the weed called honohono in Hawaiian, popularly known abroad as Quitchgrass—a weed which every planter in wet⟳ districts on our islands has been troubled with and found to be a costly enemy.”

“Other enemies, like⟳ the smaller weeds, he could overcome⟳, but injustice, that quitch grass of life, was what stung him to fury.”

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