What does lowing mean?
Lowing means present participle and gerund of low.
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/ˈləʊɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of low.
The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes.
a. 1882, anonymous, "Away In a Manger" But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes.
And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheepe in mine eares, and the lowing of the oxen which I heare?
Nor is Oſiris seen In Memphian Grove, or Green, Trampling the unſhower'd Graſſe with lowings loud:
[…] the herd of four or five hundred cattle trotting homewards with loud lowings and bellowings […]
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Lowing means present participle and gerund of low.
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The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes.
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