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Definition of Rathripe
1. a. Rareripe, or early ripe.
Definition of Rathripe
1. an early ripening variety [n -S]
Medical Definition of Rathripe
1. Rareripe, or early ripe. A rareripe. "Such who delight in rathripe fruits." (Fuller) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rathripe
Literary usage of Rathripe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agriculture Improv'd: Or, The Practice of Husbandry Display'd: Chiefly Shewn by William Ellis (1745)
"Thirdly, That this rathripe Barley will even in fuch a ... the true rathripe
Barley-feed: Not but that the Virtue of this ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1873)
"... "before which," says Fuller, "we fetched most of our cherries from Holland,
apples from France, and hardly had a mess of rathripe peas but from Holland, ..."
3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"... though following it at greater distance than the field pease in the country
the rathripe pease in the garden. Disgraceful in ray opinion, that, ..."
4. Agricultural Writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young, 1200-1800 by Donald McDonald (1908)
"Of barleys, the rathripe or patney in Oxfordshire, the Scotch barley in Lincolnshire,
and the wheat barley in Staffordshire, shaped like barley, ..."
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