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Cut down to size, in a way
Answer for the clue "Cut down to size, in a way ", 3 letters:
mow
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Etymology 1 vb. To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down. Etymology 2 n. (context now only dialectal English) A scornful grimace; a wry face. (from 14th c.) vb. To make grimaces, mock. Etymology 3 n. 1 (context now regional English) ...
Usage examples of mow.
Even when you do mow it, the dandelion roots are still there and ready to do the whole thing all over again --examples of the kind of angiosperm that evolved to survive heavy low feeding.
Back at the fire, the gunmen were still waiting to mow de Bono down should he re-emerge.
Perhaps he saunters into a country church-yard, and there finds amongst the rank grass and moss-grown and neglected memorials of the silent multitude, one trim and well-tended monument, uninvaded by cryptogamia, free from all stain of the weather, and the surrounding grassy sward neatly mown and fenced in, it may be, with budding willow branches or a circle of clipped box.
West Point, Indiana, Virginia Emerick carefully mowed around it until it was two-feet wide and weighed 40 pounds.
Out of the psychic blue, very detailed memories of these fights surfaced one afternoon as he was getting ready to mow the Ennet House lawn for Pat in May Y.
By the time Eve got to the Flatiron Building, Peabody had mowed her way through the hoagie and a good portion of chips.
If I ever have a word to say to Luke Jobling, I know it will be with an eye to a good long lie in the morning when he has gone to his mowing or his reaping.
Commander Mown under the usual procedure, or to alert the Battle Center directly.
Captain Crocker was frowning, and even Commander Mown looked concerned as he read the sheet of hard copy Crocker had passed to him.
Half an hour afterward, the sound of a hand-organ in the avenue roused him from the brown study into which he had fallen as he lay on the newly mown grass of the lawn.
The tough Bermuda grass was mown every night by the gardening robots, but it was still like walking over a layer of thick sponge in the morning.
The four of them walked a little way down the mown grass between the rows.
Here, near the forest, the grass was thicker, sweeter, freshly mown and edged with harebells.
Fish and hay wagons rumbled inside with freshly mown hay stacked high as a hut and huge wooden barrels of flounder, monkfish, and herring that made the air smell like the sea.
The familiar scent of freshly mown hay, mixed with the sharp tinge of manure, filled the warm air.