Obs. exc. dial. Also 9 dial. etgro. [f. ED- + stem of OE. grów-an; cf. OE. edgrówung, Ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker, 149.] The aftergrowth of grass; aftermath, eddish.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 135. Edgrow, greese [K., etc. edgraw, herbe, H. P. growe, greese], bigermen, regermen.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 72/2. Edgrewe, is the Grass left growing after Mowing, some term it the Latter grass, or latter growing.
1726. Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3), Edgrew, some term it Latter-grass or Latter-math.
1875. Lanc. Gloss. (E. D. S.), s.v., So mitch for t’gress and soa mitch for t’etgro.
