pingrass

English

Noun

pingrass (countable and uncountable, plural pingrasses)

1. Alternative form of pin grass
   • 1849, Joseph Warren Revere, Joseph Nerée Balestier, A Tour of Duty in California:

     Besides their weapons and feather blankets, they manufacture from pingrass very excellent baskets, called “coras,” of all sizes, generally of a conical shape, and so finely worked that they hold water.

   • 1927, Charles H. Magee, Antics of Aimee: The Poetical Tale of a Kidnapped Female, page 31:

     I remember the jackass that used to eat pingrass;

   • 1948, Walter Colton, The California Diary [1846-1849], page 191:

     ...she presents a pingrass, on which the cattle still thrive ; and when this fails, it has already dropped a seed even more nutritious than the stem which sustained its bulbous cradle.

Anagrams

• parsings, raspings, sparings, sparsing