† mowburningn.
Obsolete. rare.
The natural heating up and fermenting of hay or corn that has been stacked when it is damp or too green; = mowheat n. (b) at mow n.1 Compounds 2.
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1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 256 They draw a Cubb or Beerlip..up the middle of the mow or stack, and through the hole, that this leaves, the heat will ascend, and so prevent mow-burning.
1793 G. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Mid Lothian 63 In building the stacks, some draw a large bag, stuffed with straw, up the centre, which leaves a kind of funnel for the vapour to escape, and thus prevents heating, or mow-burning.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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