Crossword clues for mowing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mowing \Mow"ing\, n.
The act of one who, or the operation of that which, mows.
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Land from which grass is cut; meadow land.
Mowing machine, an agricultural machine armed with knives or blades for cutting standing grass, etc. It may be drawn by a horse or horses, or propelled by a powered engine.
Mow \Mow\ (m[=o]), v. t. [imp. Mowed (m[=o]d); p. p. Mowed or Mown (m[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Mowing.] [OE. mowen, mawen, AS. m[=a]wan; akin to D. maaijen, G. m["a]hen, OHG. m[=a]jan, Dan. meie, L. metere to reap, mow, Gr. 'ama^n. Cf. Math, Mead a meadow, Meadow.]
To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.
To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.
Wiktionary
n. The activity by which something is mown. vb. (present participle of mow English)
Usage examples of "mowing".
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.
The engine had taken the siding instead, mowing down the switchman who stood in its path.
After school, Steve pitched in with mowing the lawn and washing the truck, while Tannie was in charge of keeping the house tidy and making their brown-bag lunches.
Four of the men on White Cow worked for the Bluestem Ranches down below, mowing and baling hay, mending fences, moving cattle from one pasture to another, doing whatever workers do on a ranch.
Ten yards to the west, grinning confidently in anticipation of mowing him down, were two Devils, one sporting a full black beard, the other on the lean side, both with their weapons leveled and ready to fire.
Driving over it, Cavanaugh noticed the giant waterborne mowing machine cutting channels through hydrilla, an aquatic weed that had sneaked into the U.
Without constant mowing, the hydrilla, which sprouted as fast as eighth-grade girls, would wrap itself around boat propellers.
Ashley Wilkes mowing the grass here, or Rhett Butler taking down the storm windows, but Evie, she has these minimum-wage slave Laotians who refuse to live in.
Already, he was estimating where he would start mowing down Masai with his ponderous fists.
Square to show their support for the regime, but when he arrived he pulled out an AK-47 and he and his bodyguards began firing into the crowd, mowing down scores of innocent men, women, and children.
Maintenance Department, first as a janitor washing blackboards and scraping dried gum from desks, then on the grounds mowing grass, pulling weeds.
He is extremely fond of mowing the lawns, and my maid tells me he is studying French with her.
Mildred dropped into a firing stance, and the Uzi and Thompson chattered briefly, mowing the men down.
For six years Mr Bullett-Finch had nurtured his lawns, sanding, mowing, spiking, fertilizing, weedkilling, even going so far as to prohibit visitors with high heels from walking on them.
Two horticultural mechanoids roamed anarchically over the trim grass, their mowing blades digging into the loamy soil as if they’d been programmed to plough deep furrows.