Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rush.
- noun A wick made of rush.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A rush.
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- noun UK, dialect A
rush (the plant).
Etymologies
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_scut_, a rabbit's tail; _seave_, a rush; _sike_, a small rill, gutter; _sile_, a young herring; _skeel_, a wooden pail; _skep_,
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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` uvular pronunciation of/r/'; burdock, formed on bur (r); carl hemp, Scand golland and variant gowan, possibly akin to E gold; hulver, ling, seal ` willow,' and seave ` the rush. '
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