Mow

Definition: Mow

Mow

Noun

1. A loft for storing hay.

Verb

1. Cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass".

2. Make a sad face; "mop and mow".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Note: Mow \Mow\, verb. [pres. singular Mow, plural Mowe, Mowen, Moun.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

MOW

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Mow

Agriculture

Verb: cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset.

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Smoothness

Verb: smooth, smoothen; plane; file; mow, shave; level, roll; macadamize; polish, burnish, calender, glaze; iron, hot-press, mangle; lubricate; (oil).

Store

Crop, harvest, mow, vintage.

Crosswords: Mow

Manx (waste ), Sranan (sleeve).

You know, he's the kind of kid who forgets to mow your lawn for two weeks, then when he finally comes, you end up paying him for three (Everwood; writing credit: Michael Green; Rina Mimoun)

Didn't you like, used to mow our lawn (Can't Buy Me Love; writing credit: Michael Swerdlick)

The way I see it, you have people who own lawns and people who mow them (Lawn Dogs; writing credit: Naomi Wallace)

'There are people who own lawns and people who mow them and they're never the same people (Lawn Dogs; writing credit: Naomi Wallace)

Nice day for a mow! (My Blue Heaven; writing credit: Nora Ephron)

Seranade the weekend squire, who just came out to mow his lawn (Pleasant Valley Sunday; performing artist: The Monkees)

Youth is when we are always hunting greener pastures, and middle age is when we can barely mow the one we've got. (references; author: unknown)

Til You Mow the Lawn No Dessert Dad (1994)

Mow mi Rockerfeller (1990)

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Books

• Get Mow Out of Life (reference)

• Mosley went to Mow (reference)

• Nik, Mow I Know (reference)

• The complete book of groundcovers; lawns you don't have to mow (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• No Dessert Dad 'Til You Mow The Lawn (reference)

• No Dessert Dad Untill You Mow (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Too Hot To Mow (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

They have given to the poor, and to widows and orphans, the right to mow their meadows three days before any one else

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Expressions using "mow": mop and mow ♦ mow down ♦ mow the lawn. Additional references.

Albanian

mullar (Rick, stack), vras në masë, plevicë (depot, hayloft, serai, stockyard), ngërdheshje (face, grimace, mouth), kullëbari, kosit (chaff, mow down, scythe, shave). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كشر (grimace, grin, mug, pull a face, scowl, sniff), ‏مخزن التبن, ‏حصد (crop, cut, harvest, head, reap), ‏سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), ‏جز (clip, clipping, fleece, shear, shear off), ‏إستنكر (censure, denounce, deprecate, disapprove, reprobate, reprove, show up), ‏أسقط (bring down, discount, dump, head off, kill, knock over, lay low, leave out, let down, let fall, lodge, omit, overthrow, overturn, parachute, project, push down, push over, screw off, shed, toss), ‏أباد (annihilate, destroy, devour, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, polish off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

купа (bowl, cup, heart, pewter, plate, pot), кося (cut, scythe), гримаса (face, grimace, mop, mouth, mug), жъна (bag, cut, harvest, reap), правя гримаса (grimace, mop and mow). (various references)

Chinese 

芟 (cut down, scythe), 摲 (to cut down), 乂 (to regulate), 割 (Mowed, Mowing, Mown), 刈 . (various references)

Czech

stoh (pile, Rick, stack), seník, sekat (chop, cut, hack, hew, scythe), pitvořit se, kosit (reap, scythe), grimasa (grimace, wince), žnout (reap). (various references)

Danish

slå (beat, cut, hit, strike). (various references)

Dutch

maaien (cut). (various references)

Esperanto

falĉi (cut). (various references)

Faeroese

sláa (beat, cut, hit, strike), skera (cut, shave, slice). (various references)

Farsi 

چیدن (Arrange, Clip, Crop, Cut, Lop, Pare, Pick, Pickup, Pluck, Pull, Set, Snip, Trim), چمن رازدن , توده یونجه یاکاه , علف چیدن . (various references)

Finnish

niittää (mow down). (various references)

French

faucher. (various references)

German

mähen (Baa, bleat, cut, cutting, mowing, mown, reap, reaping, scythe), abmähen (cut, scythe, to scythe). (various references)

Greek 

θερίζω (crop, harvest, reap, scythe). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתבן (haymow, heap of straw), מחסן חציר, לכסוח (clear, cut down), ערמת חציר. (various references)

Hungarian

megnyír fûnyíróval, szénaboglya (Haycock, hayrick, haystack), lenyír (cut, to clip, to crop, to cut, to dub, to trim, trim), kaszál füvet. (various references)

Indonesian

menyiangi (grub), memotong rumput, memangkasi (trim (the plants in an area)). (various references)

Italian

mietere (claim, harvest, reap, take), tagliare (blend, carve, chop, clip, cross, cut, cut across, cut down, cut off, fell, get cut, hack, hew, knife, reap, short cut, slice, snip, trim), rasare (shave, trim), falciatura (mowing), falciare (cut down, scythe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薙ぎ払う (to mow down), 薙ぎ�'す (to beat, to mow down), 苅る (to mow), 刈り取る (to harvest, to mow, to reap), 刈る　 (to clip, to cut hair, to harvest, to mow grass, to shear), 刈る (to clip, to cut, to harvest, to mow, to prune, to reap, to shear, to trim). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なぎたおす (to beat, to mow down), なぎはらう (to mow down), かりとる (to harvest, to mow, to reap), かる (to borrow, to buy on credit, to clip, to cut, to drive, to harvest, to have a loan, to hire, to hunt, to impel, to mow, to prune, to reap, to rent, to shear, to spur on, to trim). (various references)

Korean 

채초하십시�". (various references)

Manx

spattan (light-lodged corn), buinn (cut, cut down, harvest, lift, mowing, reap, reaping, shear, shearing). (various references)

Pig Latin

owmay.(various references)

Portuguese

segar (harvest, reap, scythe), ceifar (harvest, reap). (various references)

Romanian

stog (Rick, stack), secera (crop, cut down, harvest, mow down, reap), recolta (crop, cut, gather, harvest, reap), culege (collect, compose, crop, cull, gather, glean, pick, pick up, pluck, reap, set up, take up), cosi (cut, destroy, mow down, reap), cãpiţã (haystack, shock, stack). (various references)

Russian 

косить (cut, decimate, mown, scythe, slant, squint). (various references)

Scottish

buain (as grass, cut down; win, pluck, reap). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stog (goaf, rick, stack), plast (haystack, rick, stack), kositi (scythe), iskositi (skew, tilt), grimasa (face, grimace). (various references)

Spanish

mueca (face, grimace, grin, mop), segar (crop, cut, harvest, mow down, reap), guadar, cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle), almiar (haycock, hayrick, haystack, Rick, stack). (various references)

Swedish

slå (bang, bash, beat, bolt, buffet, cap, capture, cast, catch, crossbar, dash, defeat, dial, drive, flap, hit, hurt smb., hurtle, impinge, knock, lay, lick, palpitate, pour, punch, ram, sit, slam, slap, slat, smash, smite, strike, stroke, tack, throw, trounce, warble, whang, whip), loge (barn, box, dressing room), klippa (cliff, clip, cut, edit, outcrop, outcropp, pare, rock, rock (of stone), scaur, scissor, shear, trim), höskulla. (various references)

Thai

โรงนา, สังหารหมู่, ตั�"หญ้า. (various references)

Turkish

ot yığını, ekin yığını, biçmek (crop, cut, cut out, cut up, estimate, harvest, reap, scythe, scythe down, slice). (various references)

Ukrainian

сінник (hayloft, loft, mattress), скирта, кривлятися (grimace, make faces, mop and mow), гримаса (grimace, mop), жати (harvest, reap). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rạ (thatch), cót, cái nhăn mặt, cái bĩu môi (raspberry), đống (hill, hillock, monticle, monticule, mound, rick). (various references)

Welsh

pladuro (scythe). (various references)

lift tondeo totonsi tonsum, messa, messione, messionis, messis, messorum, messuerint, messueris, messueritis, messuerunt, messuistis, messum, metatur, mete, metebant, metemus, metendum, metens, metent, metentes, metentis, metentium, metere, metes, metet, metetis, metis, metit, metite, metitus, meto, metunt, tondeo totonsi tonsum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "mow": mowed, mower, mowers, mowing, mowings, mown, mows. (additional references)

Words ending with "mow": haymow. (additional references)

Words containing "mow": haymows, lawnmower, lawnmowers, newmown, unmown. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emow, kow, Maowm, mauw, mawg, mco, Mdo, mewy, Mhow, miw, mno, moaw, moc, mof, Mog, Mogwe, moh, moi, moj, mok, mooj, moowk, moq, mou, mov, mowi, mowl, mowm, mowra, mowt, moy, moz, Mrow, Mso, mto, Mtow, muq, muw, muwe, mvo, Mzwai, Omd, omv, Oow, ow, umo, ymo, zmo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: mo, om, ow, wo.

+1 letter: meow, mown, mows, whom, womb, worm.

+2 letters: embow, meows, miaow, mowed, mower, whamo, whomp, woman, wombs, womby, women, worms, wormy.

+3 letters: awmous, beworm, bowman, bowmen, cowman, cowmen, deworm, embows, enwomb, haymow, mallow, marrow, meadow, mellow, meowed, miaows, minnow, morrow, mowers, mowing, unmown, wadmol, whammo, whilom, whomps, whomso, wisdom, womans, wombat, wombed, womera, wormed, wormer, wormil.