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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mow  \Mow\,  v.  t.  [imp.  {Mowed};  p.  p.  {Mowed}  or  {Mown};  p.  pr 
  &  vb  n.  {Mowing}.]  [OE.  mowen,  mawen,  AS  m[=a]wan;  akin  to 
  D.  maaijen  G.  m["a]hen,  OHG.  m[=a]jan,  Dan.  meie,  L.  metere 
  to  reap,  mow,  Gr  ?.  Cf  {Math},  {Mead}  a  meadow,  {Meadow}.] 
  1.  To  cut  down  as  grass,  with  a  scythe  or  machine. 
 
  2.  To  cut  the  grass  from  as  to  mow  a  meadow. 
 
  3.  To  cut  down  to  cause  to  fall  in  rows  or  masses,  as  in 
  mowing  grass;  --  with  down  as  a  discharge  of  grapeshot 
  mows  down  whole  ranks  of  men. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mowing  \Mow"ing\,  n. 
  1.  The  act  of  one  who  or  the  operation  of  that  which  mows. 
 
  2.  Land  from  which  grass  is  cut;  meadow  land. 
 
  {Mowing  machine},  an  agricultural  machine  armed  with  knives 
  or  blades  for  cutting  standing  grass,  etc  It  is  drawn  by 
  a  horse  or  horses,  or  propelled  by  steam. 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Mowing 
  (Heb.  gez),  rendered  in  Ps  72:6  "mown  grass."  The  expression 
  "king's  mowings"  (Amos  7:1)  refers  to  some  royal  right  of  early 
  pasturage,  the  first  crop  of  grass  for  the  cavalry  (comp.  1 
  Kings  18:5). 
 




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