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noun
The first shoots of grass or crops.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, uncountable
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verb
Of grass or crops: to show their first shoots above ground.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, intransitive
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History
From Scots braird, from Old English brerd (“edge; spike, corner”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bherH-.
