Meanings
plural earshes · alternative arrish · alternative arish · alternative ersh · alternative aish · alternative airish · alternative eddish · alternative errish · alternative hayrish · alternative herrish
- archaiccountableuncountablestubble 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,
Origin
- Old Englishersċ“a park, preserve; stubble-field”
- Middle English*ersch
- Englishearsh
From Middle English *ersch, from Old English ersċ (“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.
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earsh. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/earsh
“earsh.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/earsh. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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