Meanings
- archaicuncountableScurvy-grass (Cochlearia spp.).
The first to come up was the scurvywort, only an inch high, but vital to seamen who live on ship's biscuit.
1974, Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books, published 2003, page 1151 more example
in the kitchen beyond, salad in stacks and faggots: salad of lettuce, salad of cress and endive, salad of boiled coleworts, salad of pickled coleworts, salad of angelica, salad of scurvy-wort, and seven salads more; for potatoes were not as yet, and salads were during eight months of the year the only vegetable.
1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!
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