Mowed

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mow \Mow\ (m[=o]), v. t. [imp. {Mowed} (m[=o]d); p. p. {Mowed}
     or {Mown} (m[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Mowing}.] [OE. mowen,
     mawen, AS. m[=a]wan; akin to D. maaijen, G. m[aum]hen, OHG.
     m[=a]jan, Dan. meie, L. metere to reap, mow, Gr. 'ama^n. Cf.
     {Math}, {Mead} a meadow, {Meadow}.]
     1. To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.


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     2. To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.
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     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.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "mowed":
     abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, bobbed, capsule, capsulized,
     clipped, compressed, condensed, cropped, curtailed, cut short,
     digested, docked, elided, elliptic, mown, nipped, pollard, polled,
     pruned, reaped, shaved, sheared, short-cut, shortened, snub,
     snubbed, trimmed