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mowing

[ moh-ing ]

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noun

the act of leveling or cutting down grass, grain, etc., with a mowing machine or scythe.
the quantity of grass, grain, etc., cut in a specified period.

Origin of mowing¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; mow ¹, -ing ¹

The killers went from classroom to classroom mowing down teachers and students alike.

With this tool, Death is illustrated in many a 15th-century woodcut mowing down souls as if they were grain.

Or maybe it was the day we first picked up a razor aged 11 or 13 or 15 and began the lifelong mowing of body hair.

Political ads showing Harry Reid on rider mower, mowing the Mall?

She often worked multiple jobs at a time, including tutoring, carpentry, mowing highways, waiting tables, and clerking.

Let her have one day at the 'mowing,' if you choose, then she'd better be put into that old pasture and left there.

He had a contrivance that looked like a small mowing machine, and was busily cutting swaths of wool along her sides.

Happening to remember that the mowing machine was standing in the barnyard, with the mowing-bar in the air, I examined it.

No more easy conquests for him, sitting in his college chair, mowing them all down like a Maxim as far asEly.

All through schooltime the mowing-machine hummed its low harmony of perishable minutes and wasted sunlight.

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