lattermath

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a second crop of grass cut after the first mowing; an aftermath

   The cattle grazed on the soft lattermath of late summer.

A compound of latter (Old English lætra, comparative of læt 'late') and math 'a mowing' (Old English mæð, from the root of mow). Compare aftermath, formed on the same dialectal sense of math.

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