braird

noun

1. The first shoots of grass or crops.

   uncountable

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

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry braird (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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