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verb

Mow v. t. (past mowed; past part. mown; pres. part. mowing)

To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.

To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.

To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.

Mow v. t. To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.

Mow v. i. To make mouths. "Nodding, becking, and mowing."

Mow v. i. (past mowed; past part. mown; pres. part. mowing) To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.

Mow v. (pres. sing. mow, pl. mowe, mowen, moun) May; can. "Thou mow now escapen." (Obs.) "Our walles mowe not make hem resistence."

noun

Mow n. (Written also moe and mowe) A wry face. "Make mows at him."

Mow n. (Zool.) Same as Mew, a gull.

Mow n.

A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.

The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

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"Mow" Quotes from Famous Books

... hope so, Mister," said Ernest, boldly, "because, unless the signs fail, he's going to need all his cunning this same day. That lad has the measure of your hard hitters already taken. Did you see him mow down Clifford then like a weed? Why, he'll have the best of them eating out of his hand before the day ...

— Jack Winters' Baseball Team - Or, The Rivals of the Diamond • Mark Overton

... you are going to try the hay field. Don't try to mow away. But in the open air I think you can stand it. It is getting very dry here. I think you had a fine shower Saturday night about eight o'clock. I stood on the top of Slide Mountain at that hour all alone and I could look straight ...

— My Boyhood • John Burroughs

... cried the gardener, letting his hand slide down to Scarlett's biceps, "why, you haven't got the muscle in your arm to handle a scythe, let alone a sword to mow ...

— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn

... lands are cheap and productive, and labor comparatively dear, a different practice will prevail. The farmer will feed his hay from the mow without cutting. The straw will be stacked out, and the cattle turned to it, to pick what they like of it, and make their beds of the remainder; or, if it is housed, he will throw it into racks, and the stock may ...

— Cattle and Their Diseases • Robert Jennings

... beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife. Here comes another with a sou'-wester and a bombazine cloak. No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one — I mean a downright bumpkin dandy —a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands. Now when a country dandy like this takes it into his head to make a distinguished reputation, and joins the great whale-fishery, you should see the comical things he does upon reaching the seaport. In ...

— Moby-Dick • Melville

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