mown
Americanverb
verb
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Explanation
When grass or other plants are mown, they're trimmed or cut. A field of mown hay is a common sight in the countryside in the fall. After you start up the lawn mower and cut your grass, you can describe your lawn as mown. For many people, the smell of mown grass brings back memories of childhood summers. Crop fields that are planted in the spring are often mown by the end of the growing season. Mown and the related verb mow come from the Old English word mawan, "to mow," from a Germanic root.
Example Sentences
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Soil from Part of 11-acre Field twice Mown for Hay.—
From Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject by Harris, Joseph
All she cared for was the smell of hay, and she it was who brought the scent New Mown Hay into fashion.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de
Vera Violet must go with a purple dress; Attar of Roses with a pink; New Mown Hay with green,—and so on.
From Back at School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell
Soil from do. once Mown for Hay and left for Seed.—
From Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject by Harris, Joseph
According to his custom, he went on muttering strange eager sounds like Town and Down and Mown, but nothing more.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
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