mow Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a loft in a barn where hay is stored
    haymow; hayloft.
  2. verb cut with a blade or mower
    cut down.
    • mow the grass
  3. verb make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
    pout; mop.
    • mop and mow
    • The girl pouted

WordNet

Mow noun
Etymology
F. moue pouting, a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.
Definitions
  1. A wry face. "Make mows at him." Shak.
Mow intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To make mouths.
    Nodding, becking, and mowing. Tyndale.
Mow noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Same as Mew, a gull.
Mow verb
Etymology
AS. magan. See May, v.
Wordforms
present singular Mow, plural Mowe, Mowen, Moun
Definitions
  1. May; can. "Thou mow now escapen." Obs. Chaucer.
    Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. Chaucer.
Mow transitive verb
Etymology
OE. mowen, mawen, AS. mawan; akin to D. maaijen, G. mähen, OHG. majan, Dan. meie, L. metere to reap, mow, Gr. . Cf. Math, Mead a meadow, Meadow.
Wordforms
imperfect Mowed ; past participle Mowed or Mown ; present participle & verbal noun Mowing
Definitions
  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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
Mow noun
Etymology
OE. mowe, AS. mga.
Definitions
  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.
Mow transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.

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