dial. Also 6–7 latermath(e, 7 latter-meath, leather-math. [f. LATTER a. + MATH (OE. mǽþ) mowing.] The ‘latter’ mowing; the aftermath. Also, the crops then reaped.
1530. Palsgr., 237/2. Latermathe.
1587. Harrison, England, I. xviii. (1881), III. 133. Of such [medowes] as are twise mowed I speake not, sith their later math is not so wholsome … as the first.
1611. Cotgr., Arriere-saison, later math.
1653. Howell, A German Diet, 21. There be some soyles in Italy that afford four lattermaths of Hay & grass.
1692. Tryon, Good House-wife, vii. (ed. 2), 70. [Butter made in Summer] is much finer than that which is made of Rowings or Leather-Math (as they call it).
1736. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict., s.v. Cordus, Fœnum cordum, the latter math.
1813. Sir H. Davy, Agric. Chem. (1814), 363. Grasses … which afford … the greatest quantities of spring, summer, latter-math and winter produce.
1880. Jefferies, Gt. Estate, 128. The aftermath, or, as country people call it, the ‘lattermath.’
