braird
[braird]Chiefly Scot.
- the first sprouts or shoots of grass, corn, or other crops; new growth.
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- (of a crop or a seed) to sprout; appear above the ground.
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Origin of braird
1400–50; late Middle English breird, variant of brerd a sprout, to sprout, Old English brerd edge, top; akin to brad
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The standing bush keeps frost off the braird, which could not look better.
Somewhere about twelve days after the sowing the shoots appear above ground, when the “braird” is about four inches high.
The Khedive's CountryGeorge Manville Fenn