Mow definition

Mow

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WordNet

(1) A loft in a barn where hay is stored

(2) Make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

"Mop and mow"

"The girl pouted"

(3) Cut with a blade or mower

"Mow the grass"

WiktionaryText

, cognate with German , Danish , Latin and Greek .

To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.

He mowed the lawn.

A scornful grimace.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 212:
  
  Those that paint them dying [...] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.