earsh

• arrish, arish, ersh, aish, airish, errish, hayrish, herrish

From Middle English *ersch, from Old English ersc (“a park, preserve; stubble-field”).

Earsh (noun)(Old English ersc) was used in the south & west of England to describe a stubble field in which plant material – wheat, barley or rye- had been cut, leaving a short stubble or short stalks.

Noah Webster in Webster's Dictionary (1828) describes Earsh as a plowed (sic) field linking it to arrish but also to eadish which is described as latter pasture of grass that comes after mowing or reaping, called also eargrass, earsh, etch

• IPA^(key): /æʃː(ɹ)/,

earsh (countable and uncountable, plural earshes)

1. (archaic) stubble field.
   • 1628 Fires oft are good on barren earshes made, With crackling flames to burn the stubble blade’ Translation of Georgics by Virgil, Thomas May,

• Asher, Rahes, Share, Shear, asher, hares, harse, hears, rheas, sehar, sehra, share, shear