Earsh
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Earsh (Old English ersc) was used in South and West England
to describe a stubble field in which a grain crop – wheat, barley or rye - had been harvested, leaving short stubble or short stalks. It is frequently pronounced "ash". It is written also as arrish, arish, or ersh.
field is found in medieval tithe maps and their apportionments, and is Saxon in origin.
Place names such as Earsham
, Winnersh
and Wonersh
derive from their situation in an earsh field. Hazlehurst
means earsh (arable) land overgrown with Hazel
.
Noah Webster
describes earsh as a plowed (sic) field linking it to arrish, but also to eadish which is described as latter pasture of grass that comes after mowing or reaping, called also eargrass, earsh, and etch.
With crackling flames to burn the stubble blade"
Thomas May
1628
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to describe a stubble field in which a grain crop – wheat, barley or rye - had been harvested, leaving short stubble or short stalks. It is frequently pronounced "ash". It is written also as arrish, arish, or ersh.
Etymology
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field is found in medieval tithe maps and their apportionments, and is Saxon in origin.
Place names such as Earsham
Earsham
Earsham is a small village in Norfolk, England. Its postal town is the nearby Bungay, Suffolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 907 in 357 households as of the 2001 census.Earsham has a number of local attractions, including:...
, Winnersh
Winnersh
Winnersh is a village and civil parish, a part of the Borough of Wokingham, in the English county of Berkshire. The parish is roughly bounded on the north-east by the A329, to the north-west by the river Loddon, Old Forest Road and Simons Lane on the south east and Bearwood Road on the south west...
and Wonersh
Wonersh
Wonersh is a small Surrey village in England. Wonersh is about 3 miles SSE of Guildford on the B2128 road from Guildford, Shalford to Cranleigh...
derive from their situation in an earsh field. Hazlehurst
Hazlehurst
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means earsh (arable) land overgrown with Hazel
Hazel
The hazels are a genus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate northern hemisphere. The genus is usually placed in the birch family Betulaceae, though some botanists split the hazels into a separate family Corylaceae.They have simple, rounded leaves with double-serrate margins...
.
Noah Webster
Noah Webster
Noah Webster was an American educator, lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author...
describes earsh as a plowed (sic) field linking it to arrish, but also to eadish which is described as latter pasture of grass that comes after mowing or reaping, called also eargrass, earsh, and etch.
Literary references
"Fires oft are good on barren earshes made,With crackling flames to burn the stubble blade"
Thomas May
Thomas May
Thomas May was an English poet, dramatist and historian of the Renaissance era.- Early life and career until 1630 :...
1628
External links
- http://www.sussexhistory.co.uk/sussex-dialect/sussex-dialect%20-%200139.htm A Dictionary of The Sussex Dialect on-line