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mown

past participle of mow: He has mown the grass.

Not to be confused with:

moan – a prolonged low sound as from pain of some sort; a lamentation; groan; grieve; mourn

mow¹

(mou)

1. The place in a barn where hay, grain, or other feed is stored.

2. A stack of hay or other feed stored in a barn.

[Middle English moue, stack of hay, from Old English mūga; akin to Old Norse mūgr, swathe, crowd.]

mow²

(mō)

v. mowed, mowed or mown (mōn), mow·ing, mows

v.tr.

1. To cut down (grass or grain) with a scythe or a mechanical device.

2. To cut (grass or grain) from: mow the lawn.

v.intr.

To cut down grass or other growth.

Phrasal Verb:

mow down

1. To destroy in great numbers as if cutting down, as in battle.

2. To overwhelm: mowed down the opposition with strong arguments.

[Middle English mouen, from Old English māwan; see mē- in Indo-European roots.]

mow′er (mō′ər) n.

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mown

(məʊn)

a past participle of mow ¹

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mown

(moʊn)

v.

a pp. of mow ¹.

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Adj. 1. mown - (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine; "the smell of newly mown hay"

cut

botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"

unmown, uncut - (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine; "uncut grass"; "an unmown lawn"

Translations

fauché

p.p. di to mow

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By degrees, one after another, they were overcome with slumber, and lay down in the mown grass.

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However, grasshopper species richness and Shannon diversity were reduced immediately after mowing (in June sampling of sites mown in May), and rose later in the season.

Effects of different mowing regimes on orthopterans of Central-European mesic hay meadows

The fact is that they've cut that grass for such a long, long time, And to stop it now doesn't make much sense, no reason or a rhyme, They have costed special mowers and concluded with a groan, They cost too much and so you see "that grass just won't get mown."

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I don't think I could have mown our lawn for about three months, and the grass must have been about four inches long, so I needed a fairly rough cut mower, trimming it back about half way.

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It turned out the neighbor was painting the side of his house and the mower had shot freshly mown grass onto the fresh paint!

Miffed by the mower

Years later, with no animals or fields of my own to maintain, I enjoy mowing for its own sake, using the mown grass as garden mulch or compost.

The beauty of scythes

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