WEED, WEEDED, WEEDING, WEEDY
ADJECTIVES
► DIRTY of land: infested with weeds → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► HAND-WED weeded by hand → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MINTY-LOOKING weedy in appearance → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ULVOSE full of reeds or weeds → 1727 obs.
► UNCLEAN of land: foul with weeds, etc. → c1440
NOUNS
► FILTH underbrush, weeds, unwanted vegetation → c1900 Amer. dial.
► GARDEN-SIN a weed → 1664 obs.
► HARE TANGLE a place where underbrush, weeds, vines, and small trees grow together so that it’s nearly impossible to get through → 1966 Amer. dial.
► MELDA weeds → 1892 Sc.
► PAUTAMENT a quantity of weeds or other garden rubbish → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RUNCATION the act of weeding, a weeding → 1664 obs.
► SARCULATION weeding with a hoe, hoeing → 1733 obs.
► WEEDLING a small weed → 1820
NOUNS – PERSON
► SARCLER a weeder → 1707
VERBS
► DAWK to dig up weeds → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SARCLE ► SARKLE to weed with a hoe → 1543 obs.
► SARCULATE to weed, to clear from weeds; to hoe → 1623 obs.
► WALK to go through a field or crop cutting or pulling weeds → 1963 Amer. dial.
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