grass
shoot down, of birds
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,081 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 16,922 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.008% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- shoot down, of birds
- cover with grass The owners decided to grass their property
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
- feed with grass
- give away information about somebody also: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, shit He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam
noun
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927) also: Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass
grass in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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In the grass, white daisies were tremulous.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Then I saw a little undefined sign of pressure on the grass, and I got an idea.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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In an instant he would be a cow, and then he would eat grass and satisfy his hunger.
The Magic of Oz · L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum · Chapter 1
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The man who had driven himself over from the station in the cart was coming towards them across the grass.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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They had all been sitting on the grass beside the buggy for a while, now, trying to rest their weary bodies.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1