Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The place in a barn where hay, grain, or other feed is stored.
- noun A stack of hay or other feed stored in a barn.
- intransitive verb To cut down (grass or grain) with a scythe or a mechanical device.
- intransitive verb To cut (grass or grain) from.
- intransitive verb To cut down grass or other growth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put in a mow; lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a pile, heap, or mass in a barn: commonly with away.
- To be able; may. See
may . - To cut down (grass or grain) with a sharp implement; cut with a scythe or (in recent use) a mowing-machine; hence, to cut down in general.
- To cut the grass from: as, to
mow a meadow. - To cut down indiscriminately, or in great numbers or quantity.
- To cut down grass or grain; practise mowing; use the scythe or (in modern use) mowing-machine.
- noun A kinswoman; a sister-in-law.
- To make months or grimaces; mock. Compare
mop . - noun A grimace, especially an insulting one; a mock.
- noun A jest; a joke: commonly in the plural.
- noun A Chinese land-measure, equal to about one sixth of an English acre.
- noun Also spelled
mou . - noun A heap or pile of hay, or of sheaves of grain, deposited in a barn; also, in the west of England, a rick or stack of hay or grain.
- noun The compartment in a barn where hay, sheaves of grain, etc., are stored.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To make mouths.
- noun A wry face.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
mew , a gull. - verb obsolete, obsolete May; can.
- intransitive verb To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
- transitive verb To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
- transitive verb To cut the grass from.
- transitive verb To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with
down . - transitive verb To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.
- noun A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
- noun The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To cut something (especially grass or crops)
down orknock down. - noun A
stack ofhay ,corn ,beans or a barn for thestorage ofhay ,corn ,beans . - verb agriculture To put into mows.
- verb To make grimaces,
mock .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
- verb cut with a blade or mower
- noun a loft in a barn where hay is stored
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Hey does your cousin mow from the left side of the feild or the right?
warming-gate 2009
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• 5:00 AM–7:00 AM, which is named Mao time pronounced mow, rhymes with now
Tao I Dr. 2010
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• 5:00 AM–7:00 AM, which is named Mao time pronounced mow, rhymes with now
Tao I Dr. 2010
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You can't call mow a coward now because I'm going to prison.
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Christopher says the most efficient way to mow is to choose a specific area and mow in a circular motion from the edges toward the center.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Christopher says the most efficient way to mow is to choose a specific area and mow in a circular motion from the edges toward the center.
SFGate: Top News Stories Bill Daley 2011
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Christopher says the most efficient way to mow is to choose a specific area and mow in a circular motion from the edges toward the center.
SFGate: Top News Stories Bill Daley 2011
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Christopher says the most efficient way to mow is to choose a specific area and mow in a circular motion from the edges toward the center.
SFGate: Top News Stories Bill Daley 2011
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Britain women are never suffered to mow, which is a most athletic and exhausting labor, nor to load a cart, nor to drive a plough or hold it.
Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822
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I fired up the weed whacker today too with hopes that I might be able to "mow" the tree patch near our house.
Archive 2010-04-01 Gumbo Lily 2010
oroboros commented on the word mow
MOW (inverted) = MOW
February 16, 2012
oroboros commented on the word mow
Cut inches off yards? --NYT crossword clue
February 16, 2012