DCHP-3

marsh hay

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of broadleafed grass, Spartina sp., common in marshes and used as hay.

Quotations

1821
New Settlers, unless they get marsh hay along with their farms at first, get slowly on in keeping stock.
1924
There is every indication of a poor [hay] crop. . . . The Indians who depend upon the marsh hay have the same cry.
1945
[Thatch] was made with "a rank sort of grass growing in the marshes, much like the flags which are everywhere in our English brooks". (To-day at Rupert's House it is known as "marsh hay", and is used for feeding the cattle).