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- noun Alternative spelling of
nutgrass .
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Examples
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In the back yard (where all the nut-grass is, and grows straight up very fast) I just set the blade carriage to its highest and leveled the top of the lawn.
phluid61 Diary Entry phluid61 2006
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The "Bermuda grass" is very pertinacious, and is excellent in eradicating nut-grass.
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No sooner is one growth slain than a different and perhaps more pestiferous class rises in its place -- the worst of the Philistines being nut-grass, quack-grass, and -- direst foe of all -- wire-grass.
Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Rebellion grows like nut-grass when it once takes root, and runs faster than you can find it.
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