braird

American  

[braird] / brɛərd /

noun

1. the first sprouts or shoots of grass, corn, or other crops; new growth.

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verb (used without object)

1. (of a crop or a seed) to sprout; appear above the ground.

Etymology

Origin of braird

1400–50; late Middle English breird, variant of brerd a sprout, to sprout, Old English brerd edge, top; akin to brad

Example Sentences

Braird, a 51-year-old engineer who hails from the Paqueta Island deep within the Guanabara Bay and has worked at Cedae for more than 15 years, also expressed surprise when asked about illnesses resulting from the pathogens lurking in Rio’s polluted waterways.

From Washington Times

Small farmers make up most of Braird’s business.

From Washington Times

The bone-dust secures a good and quick braird of the plant, and the dung supports it powerfully afterwards.

From Project Gutenberg

The saving of manure, in the first instance, by the use of the drop-drill, appears to be considerable, since it has been frequently asserted that ten or twelve bushels of bone-dust per acre, will produce a braird equal, if not superior, to sixteen or eighteen bushels put in by the continuous mode.

From Project Gutenberg

In spring, she takes him by the braird till he looks yellow in the face long before his time—in summer, by the cuff of the neck till he lies down on his back and rots in the rain—in autumn, by the ears, and rubs him against the grain till he expires as fushionless as the windle-straes with which he is interlaced—in winter, she shakes him in the stook till he is left but a shadow which pigeons despise.

From Project Gutenberg