aftergrass

From after- +‎ grass.

aftergrass (usually uncountable, plural aftergrasses)

1. The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.

   Synonyms: aftermath, eddish, fog, (obsolete) after-eatage

   • 1614, Gervase Markham, chapter 7, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman‎, London: John Browne, page 99:

     For the ordinarie times of foddring your fat cattell […] if they féede abroad, and take the benefit of Foggs and after-grasse, then to fodder them Morning, Euening, and high-noone is fully sufficient.

   • 1820, William Wordsworth, The River Duddon‎, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, pages 44–45:

     This recess, towards the close of September, when the after-grass of the meadows is still a fresh green, with the leaves of many of the trees faded, but perhaps none fallen, is truly enchanting.

   • 1974, John McGahern, The Leavetaking‎, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 1, p. 68:

     The cool silk of aftergrass under her bare feet

• aftercrop