Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Said of a golf-club of which the face is slightly spooned or sloped backward.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
grass .
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Examples
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It's highly likely that Blears would spend considerable energy on finding out who 'grassed' - rather than establishing the ethical credentials of those that she placed her business with.
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That's a myth, the Emirates is bigger if you're referring to the grassed area.
The Guardian World News Kevin McCarra 2011
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Eligible practices would include comprehensive nutrient management, prescribed grazing, and partial field conservation practices such as grassed waterways and windbreaks.
Vp Announcement On Help Farmers Protect Water Quality ITY National Archives 2000
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The CRP continuous sign-up allows producers to enroll certain high priority practices such as grassed waterways, filter strips, and riparian buffers at any time during the year.
Clinton Gore Administration Fy2001 Budget Summary Documents ITY National Archives 2000
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The CRP continuous sign-up allows producers to enroll certain high priority practices such as grassed waterways, filter strips, and riparian buffers at any time during the year.
Vp Announcement On Help Farmers Protect Water Quality ITY National Archives 2000
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We got nothing, and yet I saw a Burman in a dug-out log, with a no whit better rod, pull up a beauty like a sea trout of two pounds, as he drifted past; so next stopping place I hope you will hear of fish "grassed" or "creeled," as they say in the papers.
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He dashed into the midst of the half cowed bandits, and swinging his arms around him like the sails of a windmill, he "grassed" a man at every stroke.
Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece Bracebridge Hemyng 1871
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However, to do him justice, he bore the numerous falls which he came in for with great philosophy, starting up again every time he was "grassed," and laughing as loudly as the rest.
California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts Henry Vizetelly 1857
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West Coast Turf, based in Palm Desert, has "grassed" in the last couple of months baseball stadiums stretching from the California coast to the Midwest, including those at Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium, Petco Park and The Coliseum.
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The funniest thing I ever read about Uday and Qusay Hussein was that the guy who betrayed their final hideout was also the host who'd catered to their every iron whim – and that he finally grassed them up because they were obnoxious, demanding, entitled little brats.
The Devil's Double and more movies on the megalomaniacal 2011
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