Mow

Quick meaning: Mow is a verb meaning (transitive) To cut down grass or crops.

Meaning

(transitive) To cut down grass or crops.

More Meanings

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

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

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

Word Forms

• mows
• mowing
• mowed
• mown

Synonyms for mow

Depending on context, synonyms include pout, cut down, mop, hayloft.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hayloft, mop, cut down, pout, shear, cut.

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