Mow

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English

Verb

Mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past mowed, past participle mowed or mown)

  1. To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.
    He mowed the lawn.

Derived terms

Noun

Mow (plural Mows)
  1. (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.

Verb

Mow (third-person singular simple present Mows, present participle Mowing, simple past and past participle Mowed)

  1. (agriculture) To put into mows.

Noun

Mow (plural Mows)
  1. (obsolete except dialectal) A scornful grimace.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 212:
      Those that paint them dying [...] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.

Thesaurus

abbreviate, abridge, abstract, anthill, bank, bob, boil down, bring in, capsulize, clip, cock, compress, condense, contract, crib, crop, crop herbs, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, dab, dig, dock, drag, dress, drift, dub, dune, elevator, elide, embankment, epitomize, equalize, even, face, flatten, foreshorten, frown, garner, gather, gather in, glean, glower, grabble, grade, grain bin, grain elevator, granary, grease, grimace, harrow, harvest, hay, haycock, hayloft, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, hill, lay, level, long face, lower, lubricate, make a face, make a mouth, molehill, mop, mop and mow, moue, mound, mouth, mouthing, mug, nip, nut, oil, pare, pick, pile, plane, planish, plaster, pluck, poll, pollard, pout, prune, pull a face, pyramid, reap, reap and carry, recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, rick, rictus, ruck, scowl, shave, shear, shock, shorten, silo, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, snarl, snowdrift, snub, stack, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take in, telescope, trim, truncate, wry face, wry mouth

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Middle English mowen, from Old English māwan, from Proto-Germanic *mēanan (cf. Dutch maaien, German mähen, Danish meje), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- ‘to mow, reap’ (cf. Hittite hamesha ‘spring/early summer’, literally, ‘mowing time’, Ancient Greek (poetic) amân)

Etymology 2

Old English mūga. Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).

Etymology 3

Middle English mowe from Middle French moue (“lip, pout”) from Old French moe (“grimace”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Cognate to moue (“pout”).

Translations

Verb

to cut something down

Noun

a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans

Verb

to put into mows

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