mowing

[ moh-ing ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mowing¹

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

Example Sentences

To put it more bluntly, by scaling back mowing, Charap wanted to change Americans’ perceptions of landscaping, one cemetery—or tiny burial plot—at a time.

From Popular-Science

Keep the mower stored properly, away from rain and snow, and you’ll get more than a couple of years worth of mowing out of it.

From Popular-Science

Then grab this automated mowing robot that can trim up to one half of an acre.

From Popular-Science

It’s time to consider an attractive, low-maintenance alternative by replacing your lawn with ground cover plants that don’t require any mowing at all.

From Popular-Science

Principal among them is the need for regular mowing, a chore that primarily serves to stave off your neighbors’ disapproval by conforming to a dated suburban ideal.

From Popular-Science

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• shear
• trim