Meaning

(transitive) To cut down grass or crops..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To cut down grass or crops.
2. (transitive, often with through) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
3. The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).
4. (cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
5. (now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face.
6. To make grimaces, mock.
7. (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
8. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

Example Sentences

He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.

Just let me wake up in the morning to the smell of new-mown hay.

In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]

On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.

The lawn hasn't had a mow for a couple of months, so it's like a jungle out there!

I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit.

At times, they seemed to be playing an especially orgiastic version of Stick Cricket, all computerised mows over midwicket and 30 off the over.

Those that paint them dying […] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.

Word Forms

• mows
• mowing
• mowed
• mown

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