mowedadj.
/məʊd/, U.S. /moʊd/ = mown adj.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [adjective] > reaping or mowing > reaped or mowed
reapena1382
new-mown1485
reaped1539
mowed1572
mown1611
shaven1645
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) at Grasse Mowed grasse, desectum gramen.
1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell 70 As for your draught oxen yee cannot giue them to much meate, except it bee the after grasse of a lowe mowed meddowe.
a1637 B. Jonson Wks. (1640) 50 The mowed Meddows, with the fleeced Sheep.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (lxxii. 6.) 347 Like rain upon the mowed grass.
a1748 J. Thomson Complaint on Miseries of Life in Poet. Wks. (1830) II. 306 Strike the last blow, O courteous fate, I'll smiling fall like mowed flowers.
1859 P. Beaton Jews in East II. vii. 261 Fields of mowed corn.
1866 R. M. Copeland Country Life (ed. 5) 692 Do not suppose that standing grass is as long in drying as mowed grass.
1935 Amer. Mercury Feb. 159/1 I let the children out of the buggy to play on the fine freshly mowed green grass.
1993 M. Atwood Robber Bride xxxv. 254 The smell of mowed grass comes in through the open window.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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