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Mow   /moʊ/   Listen
verb
Mow  v. t.  (past mowed; past part. mown; pres. part. mowing)  
1.
To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
2.
To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.
3.
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.  
1.
A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
2.
The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.






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"Mow" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tartarienes han smale eyen and litille of berd, and not thikke hered, but schiere. And thei ben false and traytoures: and thei lasten noghte that thei behoten. Thei ben fulle harde folk, and moche peyne and wo mow suffren and disese, more than ony other folk: for thei ben taughte therto in hire owne contree, of Zouthe: and therfore thei spenden, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 9 - Asia, Part 2 • Richard Hakluyt

... mantel-piece, as if indignant that an American should try to make himself at home there. Possibly it may appease his sulky shade to know that I quitted his abode as much a stranger as I entered it. But mow, at last, we were in a genuine British home, where refined and warm-hearted people had just been living their daily life, and had left us a summer's inheritance of slowly ripened days, such as a stranger's hasty opportunities so seldom permit him ...
— Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... the airing. The cat, quite overjoyed to see his project begin to succeed, marched on before, and meeting with some countrymen who were mowing a meadow, he said to them, "Good people, you who are mowing, if you do not tell the king, who will soon pass this way, that the meadow you mow belongs to my lord Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped as small ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

... pack had been hoisted into the mow, and Callie had even humped up the fragrant hay to mattress his bedroll. A window was open to the night, and as Drew stretched out wearily, he could hear the distant tinkle of a guitar, perhaps from the Four Jacks. Somewhere a woman ...
— Rebel Spurs • Andre Norton

... arching rafters overhead could not be improved for their purpose. The shingles were so far aloft that the shade within was cool on sultry summer days, and it was the pleasantest kind of music to hear the rain drops patter on the roof and the wind whistle around the eaves and corners. The mow where the hay was stored was to the left, as you entered the door, and under that were the stalls where the horses munched their dinner and looked solemnly through the opening over the mangers at the two children engaged at play. Between where ...
— The Jungle Fugitives • Edward S. Ellis


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