Definitions for mows

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mows mow

Spelling: [moh]

IPA: /moʊ/

Mows is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in mows (mosw).

Definitions for mows

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 mows

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

Examples for mows

The boy who mows the lawn wants more than the landlady is willing to pay.

Some hours after we came to a barn, the mows of which were filled with corn-blades.

Lots are then cast, and each family at once mows the portion allotted to it.

He mows the lawn, or sneaks in some practice putting, and then he's ready for dinner.

He mows down a proletarian and a Marshall Field with the same scythe.

On either side were the mows, the hay stacked in them down to the ground.

A mitrailleuse, standing a hundred yards off, mows them down like grass.

The stables were on either side of this floor and the mows were above.

Guests included a judge, the head of the Monroeville Chamber of Commerce, and Harry Rankins, who mows her lawn.

August is the passivity in the presence of the Reaper who mows the golden grain.