braird

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noun

The first shoots of grass or crops.

OriginScots braird ← Old English brerd ← Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- →
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Meanings

nounbraird (uncountable)
  1. ScotlanduncountableThe first shoots of grass or crops.

    […] as he opened the various window-boards, loving couples flew off like hares surprised too late in the morning among the early braird.

    1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 9
verbbraird (third-person singular simple present brairds, present participle brairding, simple past and past participle brairded)

present singular third person brairds · participle present brairding · participle past brairded · past brairded

  1. ScotlandintransitiveOf grass or crops: to show their first shoots above ground.

    Turnips—A very middling crop all over; brairded well, but too dry; […]

    1912, Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, Prize-essays and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, page 325

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰerH-
  2. Old Englishbrerd“edge; spike, corner”
  3. Scotsbraird
  4. Englishbraird

From Scots braird, from Old English brerd (“edge; spike, corner”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-.

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APA

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Chicago

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