Definitions for mow

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mow mow

Spelling: [moh]

IPA: /moʊ/

Mow is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in mow (mow).

Definitions for mow

noun

1. the place in a barn where hay, sheaves of grain, etc., are stored.
2. a heap or pile of hay or of sheaves of grain in a barn.
3. a wry or derisive grimace.

Verb phrases

1. mow down, to destroy or kill indiscriminately or in great numbers, as troops in battle. to defeat, overwhelm, or overcome: to knock down.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut down (grass, grain, etc.) with a scythe or a machine.
2. to cut grass, grain, etc., from:
3. Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S. to store (hay) in a barn.

verb (used without object)

1. to cut down grass, grain, etc.
2. to make mows, mouths, or grimaces.

Origin of mow

before 900; Middle English mowen, Old English māwan; cognate with German mähen

Examples for mow

Captain Foster turned and left the mow, followed by the owner of the place.

It entailed deploying the Israeli army into Palestinian refugee camps to “mow the grass.”

We will go into this adjoining field, which will soon be ready to mow.

I would have been looking at it, too, if I hadn't had to mow the lawn and then go to the store.

Rats were breeding in the trash and neighbors pitched in to mow her lawn.

What was St. Meuse to me that for her I should mow my hirsute glories?

He asked Li to assign mow Wang to him, and this request was granted.

There was hay in the mow and I had brought a bag of oats under the seat of the carriage.

The thrall who had spoken whetted his scythe with it and began to mow.

If the ould Governor's got a tongue like a file, Philip's got a tongue like a scythe—he'll mow them down.