单词 | lattermath |
释义 | lattermath dial.|ˈlætəmɑːθ, -mæθ| 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.
1530Palsgr. 237/2 Latermathe. 1587Harrison 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. 1611Cotgr., Arriere-saison, later math. 1660Charac. Italy 84 Some Soyls..afford four Latter⁓meaths of Hay. 1692Tryon 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). 1736Ainsworth Lat. Dict. s.v. Cordus, Fœnum cordum, the latter math. 1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 363 Grasses..which afford..the greatest quantities of spring, summer, latter-math and winter produce. 1880Jefferies Gt. Estate 128 The aftermath, or, as country people call it, the ‘lattermath’. |

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