vetchy

English

Etymology

vetch +‎ -y

Adjective

vetchy (comparative more vetchy, superlative most vetchy)

  1. Consisting of vetches or pea straw.
    • 1579, Edmund Spenser, “September”, in The Shepheardes Calender:
      There mayst thou ligge in a vetchy bed
  2. Abounding with vetches.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vetchy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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