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Cut-grass. World English Historical Dictionary

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Cut-grass. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cut-grass [f. CUT v. 63: lit. ‘grass that cuts.’] A genus of grasses, Leersia, esp. the species L. oryzoides, the range of which extends as far north as the south of England.

1 1840.  Bigelow, Flora (Bartlett, Dict. Amer.), Cut-grass … a species of grass, with leaves exceedingly rough backward, so as to cut the hands if drawn across them.

2 1849.  Bromfield, in Phytologist, III. 683. Cut-grass … [is] remarkable for … extreme asperity, which even makes some precaution requisite to avoid cutting the hand, an accident that is said to befal the women employed in weeding it out of the rice-fields in Lombardy.

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