mow
see also: MOW
Pronunciation Verb
MOW
Noun
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see also: MOW
Pronunciation Verb
mow (mows, present participle mowing; past mowed, past participle mowed)
- (transitive) To cut down grass or crops.
- He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.
- (transitive) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
- In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]
- French: couper l'herbe, faucher, tondre le gazon
- German: mähen, schneiden
- Italian: falciare, tagliare l'erba, mietere
- Portuguese: cortar
- Russian: коси́ть
- Spanish: podar, segar
mow (plural mows)
- (cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
- 1828, Sporting Magazine (volume 21? 71? page 10)
- I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit.
- 1828, Sporting Magazine (volume 21? 71? page 10)
mow (plural mows)
- (now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face. [from 14th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:, 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.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Make mows at him.
- Russian: грима́са
mow (mows, present participle mowing; past and past participle mowed)
- To make grimaces, mock.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;
- Nodding, becking, and mowing.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- Russian: грима́сничать
- IPA: /maʊ̯/
mow (plural mows)
- (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
- The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
mow (mows, present participle mowing; past and past participle mowed)
- (agriculture) To put into mows.
mow (plural mows)
- Alternative form of mew (a seagull)
MOW
Noun
- Initialism of meals on wheels
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