mow

For the verb: "to mow"

Simple Past: mowed
Past Participle: mowed, mown

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mow1
verb (past part. mowed or mown)
  • 1 cut down or trim (grass or a cereal crop) with a machine or scythe.
  • 2 (mow someone down) kill someone with a fusillade of bullets or other missiles.

    ■ recklessly knock someone down with a car.

– derivatives
mower noun.
– origin OE māwan, of Gmc origin; rel. to mead2.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mow2
noun N. Amer. or dialect
  • 1 a stack of hay, corn, or other crop.
  • 2 a place in a barn where such a stack is kept.
– origin OE mūga; of unknown ultimate origin.
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