braird

English

Etymology

From Scots braird, from Old English brerd (“edge; spike, corner”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-.

Noun

braird (uncountable)

1. (Scotland) The first shoots of grass or crops.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 9:

     […] as he opened the various window-boards, loving couples flew off like hares surprised too late in the morning among the early braird.

Verb

braird (third-person singular simple present brairds, present participle brairding, simple past and past participle brairded)

1. (Scotland, intransitive) Of grass or crops: to show their first shoots above ground.

Anagrams

• briard