Hassuc

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hassuc
m. Coarse grass, a place where such grass grows :-- On ðone hassuc, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 223, 25. [Prompt Parv. p. 228, note 2, where a passage is quoted in which the phrase usque ad tercium hassocum occurs in the defining of a boundary. In Engl. Dial. Soc. No. 26, is the following :-- 'Hassock or Hassocks. A name sometimes assigned to aira cæspitosa, L. but more accurately regarded as a term indicating the large coarse tufts formed in meadows by this grass and some sedges, such as Carex cæspitosa and C. paniculata.' Cf. too No. 30 :-- 'Hassocks. "Great tufts of rushes, etc., called in Suffolk hassocks."' No. 31. [Leicestershire] :-- 'Hassock a tuft of coarse rank grass; an ant-hill.'] hassuc
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