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

He came into the hall where the wedding festival had been held; and as he opened the various windowboards, loving couples flew off like hares surprised too late in the morning among the early braird.

From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by Hogg, James

But here there are no larks—a little further down and you will hear one ascending or descending over almost every field of grass or of the tender braird.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

The standing bush keeps frost off the braird, which could not look better.

From The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 by Sellar, Gordon

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

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

The hedges were bursting into bloom, the grass was dotted with daisies, and from the fields of braird rose larks and other birds, which sang as if they rejoiced with me.

From The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 by Sellar, Gordon