mow
verb (used with object)
to cut down (grass, grain, etc.) with a scythe or a machine.
mowe
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a variation of
mow.
Example Sentences
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So as we habeþ i seid of diuers wordles. þet god almichti dede werkmen into his winyarde; so we mowe sigge of þo elde of eueriche men.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
But how it semethe to symplemen unlerned, that men ne mowe not go undre the erthe, and also that men scholde falle toward the hevene, from undre!
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt
They cannot mowe it with a sythe, but they cutt it with such a hooke as they bagge pease with.
From The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey
It is an honour to everich that is heer, That ye mowe have a suffisant pardoneer Tassoille yow, in contree as ye ryde, For aventures which that may bityde.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
Hwych so þe mon soweþ; al swuch he schal mowe.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
