Question

meaning of champed the grass

Answer 1

to bite or chew up noisily the grass

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Answer 2

Answer:

The meaning of "champed the grass" in "Walter de la Mare"'s poem. The Listeners, is to make a noisy, chewing sound. While eating grass, a horse makes this kind of noise. This phrase comes in the beginning of the poem which contributes to its setting. The incident starts in a house present in the middle of an isolated forest. The traveller arrives at this house at night and knocks on the door. His horse grazes in the forest while he waits for a response which never comes. Though the description suggests, that it has been a long time since anybody lived there, the traveller seems to think that he might find someone there.