quitch grass

British  

/ kwɪtʃ /

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: quitch.  another name for couch grass

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Etymology

Origin of quitch grass

Old English cwice; perhaps related to cwicu living, _quick (with the implication that the grass cannot be killed); compare Dutch kweek, Norwegian kvike, German Queckengras

Example Sentences

The lesser ones he could sweep away at one stroke, but that quitch grass was more difficult to conquer.

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Other enemies, like the smaller weeds, he could overcome, but injustice, that quitch grass of life, was what stung him to fury.

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The quitch grass was thicker now, and the struggle harder.

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On the contrary, I know precisely that for either object, whether to bring the weeds and quitch grass to the surface and to wither them by scorching heat, or to expose the earth itself to the sun's baking rays, there can be nothing better than to plough the soil up with a pair of oxen during mid-day in midsummer.

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And if a gang of men set to, to break and make this fallow with the mattock, it is transparent that their business is to separate the quitch grass from the soil and keep them parted?

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