a. [f. COUCH sb.2 + -Y.]

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  1.  Full of or infested with couch-grass.

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1787.  Winter, Syst. Husb., 304. Capable of working in couchy, stoney, and every kind of soil.

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1843.  Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., III. I. 120. Rough, cloddy, and couchy ground.

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  2.  Of the nature of or resembling couch-grass.

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1794.  T. Davis, Agric. Wilts (1813), 258–268. Black couch, agrostis stolonifera, or couchy bent.

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1809.  G. Landt, Feroe Islands (1810), 150. Creeping and couchy bent-grass.

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