10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUTTY GRASS»
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cutty grass in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cutty grass and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
She stands and pulls the pram up the beach towards the cutty grass on the bank.
Lying down in a little hollow, she thinks carefully and consciously for a time about
her mother. The sand underneath her is warm from the day, and the cutty grass ...
2
Fishing Tales and Other Tales
Tall lumpy cutty grass pods stood over the muddy ground under and it was these
that were normally used to skip across to the drier ground once more at the foot of
the high hill. Half way over he leapt onto a particularly large one of these pods ...
3
New Zealand Māori Word Encyclopedia
... D. billardieri perehia Drizopsis: D. rigida hunangimoho Festuca: F. littoralis, a
coarse grass m5tiatia/ mitihetihe Gahnia: A G. species toctoetnra-ngirara/maru; G
. lacera, a sedge (cutty grass) tarangiram / tatangi / toctoe kiwi / toetoe ngaungau
...
4
Proceedings of the New Zealand Weed Control Conference
THE CONTROL OF CUTTY GRASS (Carex Spp .) By F. C. ALLEN, The
Canterbury (N.Z.) Seed Co. Ltd., Christchurrh SUMMARY In trials MCPA proved
superior on a cost efficiency basis to MCPB, 2,4-D, 2-4-DB, or dalapon in
controlling cutty ...
New Zealand Weed and Pest Control Society, 1960
We walked on and on, past wild sweet peas, clumps of cutty grass, horse
mushrooms, ragwort, gorse, cabbage trees; and then, at the end of the gully, we
came to strange territory, fences we did not know, with the barbed wire tearing at
our ...
6
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Common name Maori name MONOCOTYLEDONES Hook grass Cutty grass Toe
Toe Karetu GYMNOSPERMAE Silver tussock Holygrass Mountain totara Totara
White Pine Black Pine Red Pine Bog Pine/Mountain Pine Silver Pine ...
7
The Godzone Dictionary: Of Favourite New Zealand Words and ...
A cut lunch is often carried by farmers, schoolchildren and workers who either
prefer home-made food or may be some distance from any commercial food
supply. cutty grass informal, abbrev. (often among children) of cutting grass,
especially ...
8
Selected Poems, 1975-1994
Brown top, featherhead, plantain and cutty grass, a dozen yards to the dog
daisies beside the dry stones of the road; and the wind heading on up the valley,
crossing to Moonshine, over the mountains and north to the Wairarapa's sun-
dazed ...
Lauris Dorothy Edmond, 1994
9
Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: ...
The same holds for the older half squarie 'prostitute', from squarie 'a young
woman, a girl friend', hot crossie 'hot cross bun', and the New Zealand cutty-grass
'cutting-grass'. At least one coordinate structure has been recorded, the
Australian ...
Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith, 2009
Its surface was uneven with clumps of cutty grass and be patches of earth. Kids
had been calling it the bullring forever it seemed and although its original
purpose could only be guessed at it was now perfect for scrappy soccer, bike
races and ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUTTY GRASS»
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cutty grass is used in the context of the following news items.
Stolen cross recovered
Last Monday Theo returned to the river with his parents, Tony Sutorius and Tania Woodcock, and waded through cutty grass to rescue it. «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 13»
Hunt for the Aotearoa
As the SAR team move through the bush, Mr Lankshear pushes ahead, ducking through the branches and cutty grass, searching the land on ... «The Nelson Mail, Mar 13»
Ecologist on track to help save kokako
... we go off track and that means we can encounter some nasty stuff like kiekie which is dense and difficult to get through and native cutty grass. «Auckland stuff.co.nz, Feb 12»
A few words from...
My son and his mate then scrambled up the cliffs to try to get mobile phone reception only to get attacked by gorse and cutty grass. Eventually ... «New Zealand Doctor Online, Nov 11»
