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All 3 letters words made out of mow

mow omw mwo wmo owm wom

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Definitions and meaning of mow

mow

Etymology 1

From Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English māwan (past tense mēow, past participle māwen), from Proto-West Germanic *māan, from Proto-Germanic *mēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow, reap”).

See also Dutch maaien, German mähen, Danish meje, Swedish meja; also Hittite [script needed] (ḫamešḫa, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin metō (“I harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “I mow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /moʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Verb

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past mowed, past participle mowed or mown)

1. (transitive) To cut down grass or crops.

2. (transitive, often with through) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.

Derived terms

• mow down
• mower
• push-mow
• remow

Related terms

• aftermath, math
• mead, meadow

Translations

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).

2. (cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
   • 1828, Sporting Magazine (volume 21? 71? page 10)

     I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit.

Etymology 2

Middle English mowe, from Middle French moue (“lip, pout”), from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”), from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“muff, sleeve”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Doublet of moue ("pout").

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /moʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. (now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face. [from 14th c.]
   • , 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.

Translations

Verb

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)

1. To make grimaces, mock.

Translations

Etymology 3

Old English mūga. Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʊ̯/
• Rhymes: -aʊ

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

Translations

Verb

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)

1. (agriculture) To put into mows.

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Etymology 4

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. Alternative form of mew (a seagull)

See also

• Mow in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• OMW, WMO, WOM

Middle English

Etymology 1

Feom Old English magan (“to use, to win, to be able to”).

Verb

mow

1. Alternative form of mowen (“to be able to”)

Etymology 2

Feom Old English māwan (“to mow”).

Verb

mow

1. Alternative form of mowen (“to mow”)