Noun: mow
Sample Sentences
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The lawn hasn't had a mow for a couple of months, so it's like a jungle out there!
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I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit. [1828, Sporting Magazine (volume 21? 71? page 10)]
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At times, they seemed to be playing an especially orgiastic version of Stick Cricket, all computerised mows over midwicket and 30 off the over. [2015, Lawrence Booth, The Shorter Wisden 2015:]
Nouns inflected like mow
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”).
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mjo (“to mow”), Dutch maaien (“to mow”), German mähen (“to mow”), Luxembourgish méien (“to mow”), Danish meje (“to mow”), Swedish meja (“to mow”); see also Hittite [script needed] (ḫamešḫa, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin metō (“to harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to mow”). See: Old English Nouns '
māwan', Latin Nouns '
metō'.
Verbs referencing "mow"
Ancient Greek Nouns
ἄμητος.