mowern.¹

Brit.

/ˈməʊə/, U.S.

/ˈmoʊər/

Forms: see mow v.¹ and -er suffix¹; also Middle English mauwer, Middle English moweer, Middle English mowhere, 1500s mowyer; Scottish pre-1700 malwar; Irish English 1800s mougheare.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < mow v.¹ + -er suffix¹. In later use in sense 2 short for lawn-mower n. at lawn n.² Compounds 2.With the form mowyer compare -ier suffix and discussion at that entry. Earliest attested as a surname.

a. A person who cuts grass, etc., with a scythe or (now usually) a mowing machine. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower

reapmanOE

reaperOE

mower1225

shearer1318

puller1332

winner1352

repstera1450

harvestman1552

scytheman1577

harvester1589

sickler1638

messor1656

cradler1766

grass mower1779

thraver1813

reapa1825

bagger1844

cradle-man1889

1225 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 38 (MED) Joh. le Mawere.

1309 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 38 (MED) Jord. le Mauwer.

a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 396 (MED) Li faucheour [glossed:] the mouwer [v.r. mower] littere fauche.

c1400 Femina (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 32 (MED) Le faultour littere littere fauche..Þe mowere straw moweþ.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 345 Moware wythe a sythe, Falcator, metellus.

a1500 Walter of Henley's Husbandry (Sloane) (1890) 50 (MED) Se welle þt your mowere hold not his ryght honde afore to hyghe.

1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. C.iii^v Set mowers a worke, while the meddowes be growne.

1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 33 The Mower whets his sithe.

1692 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 148 For y^e mawers and twiners of y^e hay.

1727 in 6th Rep. Dep. Keeper App. ii. 118 The Office of Keeper of Bushy Park..and of Paler and Mower of the Brakes thereof.

1780 E. Parkman Diary 249 The mower, Mr. Warrin dind with us.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 321 Rub, the gritty, silicious aggregate with which the lusty mower whets his sythe.

1866 M. Arnold Thyrsis xiii, in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 451 Where are the mowers, who..Stood with suspended scythe to see us pass?

1895 Dial. Notes 1 372 A mower, when rain was coming on: ‘I reckon we'll have to hang up for all day.’

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 721/2 Hay is never mown on the true alps save in spots which are not easily accessible to cattle (in very high spots it belongs to the mower).

1958 T. H. White Once & Future King i. 12 The best mowers mowed away in a line where the grass was still uncut, their scythes roaring.

1985 Gardening from Which? Aug. 242/3 (heading) Are you a safe mower?

†b. no meat (also morsel) for mowers and variants: not suitable for, or beyond the reach of, the common people. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 342 Lais an harlot of Corinthe of excellent beautie, but so dere & costely, that she was no morsell for mowyers.

1552 H. Latimer Serm. Septuagesima (1584) f. 322^v Therefore it [sc. a parable] may well be called hard meate, not meate for mowers nor ignorant people.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxviii. 180 To hope for hie mariages, is good meat, but not for mowers.

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Eeii Marmalet is no meat for mowers, nor pleasure a pastime for distressed men.

2. A mowing machine; (now chiefly) a lawnmower.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > mowing machine

mowing machine1822

mower1851

1851 W. Flagg Let. 7 June in Flagg Corr. (1986) 154 I have to go to Franklin next week to get one of hussy's Reapers and Mowers which I have engaged of Mr Waller for 130 dollars.

1862 Times 12 June 6/1 In addition to the agricultural machines..there are a variety of reapers and mowers.

1903 Motor. Ann. 245 This machine is designed to draw mowers and reapers in the field.

1920 W. D. Howells Vacation of Kelwyns 43 Kite had his team hitched to his mower.

1971 Power Farming Mar. 57/3 Midwinter might seem a strange time to show the working capabilities of a mower.

1985 Gardening from Which? Aug. 242/4 Treat mower blades with caution.

Compounds

mower-conditioner n. Agriculture a machine for harvesting grass crops, which cuts the crop and also treats it (esp. by abrading or removing the impervious cuticle of the stems) so as to speed the drying process.

ΚΠ

1971 Power Farming Mar. 9/1 This is a trailed, 7ft-cut mower-conditioner which leaves the crop crimped and in windrows.

1986 C. Culpin Farm Machinery (ed. 11) xi. 187/1 The normal first harvesting operation should be the use of a high-speed rotary mower-conditioner.

2000 Farm Industry News (Electronic ed.) 1 Oct. Gehl introduces a new swing-frame disc mower conditioner that brings high-speed mowing and conditioning to midwestern hay growers.

† mower's mite n. Obsolete rare the harvest mite, Trombicula autumnalis.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mower Mower's mite.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† mowern.²

Forms: early Middle English muger (northern), late Middle English moweare, late Middle English mowyer, late Middle English mugher (northern), late Middle English muwyer.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow n.¹, mow v.², -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < mow n.¹ or mow v.² + -er suffix¹.With form muwyer compare -ier suffix and discussion at that entry. Earliest attested as a surname.

Obsolete.

A person who puts hay in mows.

ΚΠ

1269 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 40 (MED) Rob. le Muger.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 565/18 Archonistus, a mowyer.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 571/14 Cassator [perh. read Tassator], a moweare.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 577/2 Cumularius, a muwyer.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 83 A Mugher [1483 BL Add. 89074 Mugher of hay], arconizator.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

† mowern.³

Forms: late Middle English moware, 1500s mower; Scottish pre-1700 mowar.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.³, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < mow v.³ + -er suffix¹.In quot. 1622 apparently with reference to the distorted faces of those who have been left on the gallows overnight; see P. Bawcutt Dunbar: New Light on Some Old Words in The Nuttis Schell (1987) 93–4.

Obsolete.

A person who makes a face; a jester, a mocker.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > one who derides or ridicules

scorner1303

bourder1330

mower1440

mockera1460

subsannator1509

hickscorner?1515

derider1543

illuder?1550

bobber1576

flouter1581

frumper1589

deluder1592

flirt1602

fleerera1627

ridiculer1681

trotter1818

finger pointer1912

snook-cocker1965

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes

jangler1303

bourder1330

triflera1382

mower1440

jester?1510

dizzardc1540

patch1549

pleasant1595

fiddle1600

motleya1605

banterer1678

morosoph1693

joker1729

farceur1781

funster1788

plaisanteur1828

cut-up1843

kibitzer1925

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 345 Moware, or makere of a mowe, Valgiator.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 246/2 Mower skorner, mocquevr.

a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 251 He louit neuir trature trumpour nor iucuris Lossingeris na mowaris nor hasarduris.

1579 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (Edinb.) 1229 in Shorter Poems (2003) 79 Iuuenall like ane mowar him allone Stude scornand euerie man as thay ȝeid by.

1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 175 Think ȝe not schame, To hald sic moweris on the moine.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

† mowern.⁴

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.⁴, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < mow v.⁴ + -er suffix¹.

colloquial. Obsolete.

A cow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun]

cowa800

nowtc1450

mower1673

colly1707

Scot1787

horny1808

moo-cow1810

sookie1838

bossy1844

sook1850

cow-creature1873

moo1930

1673 R. Head Alphabet. Canting Vocab. in Canting Acad. 41 Mower, a Cow.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Mower, a Cow.

1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 125/2 Mower, a cow.]

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

n.¹1225

n.²1269

n.³1440

n.⁴1673

单词	mower
释义	mowern.¹ Brit. /ˈməʊə/, U.S. /ˈmoʊər/ Forms: see mow v.¹ and -er suffix¹; also Middle English mauwer, Middle English moweer, Middle English mowhere, 1500s mowyer; Scottish pre-1700 malwar; Irish English 1800s mougheare. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < mow v.¹ + -er suffix¹. In later use in sense 2 short for lawn-mower n. at lawn n.² Compounds 2.With the form mowyer compare -ier suffix and discussion at that entry. Earliest attested as a surname. 1. a. A person who cuts grass, etc., with a scythe or (now usually) a mowing machine. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower reapmanOE reaperOE mower1225 shearer1318 puller1332 winner1352 repstera1450 harvestman1552 scytheman1577 harvester1589 sickler1638 messor1656 cradler1766 grass mower1779 thraver1813 reapa1825 bagger1844 cradle-man1889 1225 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 38 (MED) Joh. le Mawere. 1309 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 38 (MED) Jord. le Mauwer. a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 396 (MED) Li faucheour [glossed:] the mouwer [v.r. mower] littere fauche. c1400 Femina (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 32 (MED) Le faultour littere littere fauche..Þe mowere straw moweþ. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 345 Moware wythe a sythe, Falcator, metellus. a1500 Walter of Henley's Husbandry (Sloane) (1890) 50 (MED) Se welle þt your mowere hold not his ryght honde afore to hyghe. 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. C.iii^v Set mowers a worke, while the meddowes be growne. 1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 33 The Mower whets his sithe. 1692 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 148 For y^e mawers and twiners of y^e hay. 1727 in 6th Rep. Dep. Keeper App. ii. 118 The Office of Keeper of Bushy Park..and of Paler and Mower of the Brakes thereof. 1780 E. Parkman Diary 249 The mower, Mr. Warrin dind with us. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 321 Rub, the gritty, silicious aggregate with which the lusty mower whets his sythe. 1866 M. Arnold Thyrsis xiii, in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 451 Where are the mowers, who..Stood with suspended scythe to see us pass? 1895 Dial. Notes 1 372 A mower, when rain was coming on: ‘I reckon we'll have to hang up for all day.’ 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 721/2 Hay is never mown on the true alps save in spots which are not easily accessible to cattle (in very high spots it belongs to the mower). 1958 T. H. White Once & Future King i. 12 The best mowers mowed away in a line where the grass was still uncut, their scythes roaring. 1985 Gardening from Which? Aug. 242/3 (heading) Are you a safe mower? †b. no meat (also morsel) for mowers and variants: not suitable for, or beyond the reach of, the common people. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 342 Lais an harlot of Corinthe of excellent beautie, but so dere & costely, that she was no morsell for mowyers. 1552 H. Latimer Serm. Septuagesima (1584) f. 322^v Therefore it [sc. a parable] may well be called hard meate, not meate for mowers nor ignorant people. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxviii. 180 To hope for hie mariages, is good meat, but not for mowers. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Eeii Marmalet is no meat for mowers, nor pleasure a pastime for distressed men. 2. A mowing machine; (now chiefly) a lawnmower. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > mowing machine mowing machine1822 mower1851 1851 W. Flagg Let. 7 June in Flagg Corr. (1986) 154 I have to go to Franklin next week to get one of hussy's Reapers and Mowers which I have engaged of Mr Waller for 130 dollars. 1862 Times 12 June 6/1 In addition to the agricultural machines..there are a variety of reapers and mowers. 1903 Motor. Ann. 245 This machine is designed to draw mowers and reapers in the field. 1920 W. D. Howells Vacation of Kelwyns 43 Kite had his team hitched to his mower. 1971 Power Farming Mar. 57/3 Midwinter might seem a strange time to show the working capabilities of a mower. 1985 Gardening from Which? Aug. 242/4 Treat mower blades with caution. Compounds mower-conditioner n. Agriculture a machine for harvesting grass crops, which cuts the crop and also treats it (esp. by abrading or removing the impervious cuticle of the stems) so as to speed the drying process. ΚΠ 1971 Power Farming Mar. 9/1 This is a trailed, 7ft-cut mower-conditioner which leaves the crop crimped and in windrows. 1986 C. Culpin Farm Machinery (ed. 11) xi. 187/1 The normal first harvesting operation should be the use of a high-speed rotary mower-conditioner. 2000 Farm Industry News (Electronic ed.) 1 Oct. Gehl introduces a new swing-frame disc mower conditioner that brings high-speed mowing and conditioning to midwestern hay growers. † mower's mite n. Obsolete rare the harvest mite, Trombicula autumnalis.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mower Mower's mite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mowern.² Forms: early Middle English muger (northern), late Middle English moweare, late Middle English mowyer, late Middle English mugher (northern), late Middle English muwyer. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow n.¹, mow v.², -er suffix¹. Etymology: < mow n.¹ or mow v.² + -er suffix¹.With form muwyer compare -ier suffix and discussion at that entry. Earliest attested as a surname. Obsolete. A person who puts hay in mows. ΚΠ 1269 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 40 (MED) Rob. le Muger. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 565/18 Archonistus, a mowyer. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 571/14 Cassator [perh. read Tassator], a moweare. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 577/2 Cumularius, a muwyer. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 83 A Mugher [1483 BL Add. 89074 Mugher of hay], arconizator. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † mowern.³ Forms: late Middle English moware, 1500s mower; Scottish pre-1700 mowar. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.³, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < mow v.³ + -er suffix¹.In quot. 1622 apparently with reference to the distorted faces of those who have been left on the gallows overnight; see P. Bawcutt Dunbar: New Light on Some Old Words in The Nuttis Schell (1987) 93–4. Obsolete. A person who makes a face; a jester, a mocker. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > one who derides or ridicules scorner1303 bourder1330 mower1440 mockera1460 subsannator1509 hickscorner?1515 derider1543 illuder?1550 bobber1576 flouter1581 frumper1589 deluder1592 flirt1602 fleerera1627 ridiculer1681 trotter1818 finger pointer1912 snook-cocker1965 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes jangler1303 bourder1330 triflera1382 mower1440 jester?1510 dizzardc1540 patch1549 pleasant1595 fiddle1600 motleya1605 banterer1678 morosoph1693 joker1729 farceur1781 funster1788 plaisanteur1828 cut-up1843 kibitzer1925 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 345 Moware, or makere of a mowe, Valgiator. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 246/2 Mower skorner, mocquevr. a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 251 He louit neuir trature trumpour nor iucuris Lossingeris na mowaris nor hasarduris. 1579 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (Edinb.) 1229 in Shorter Poems (2003) 79 Iuuenall like ane mowar him allone Stude scornand euerie man as thay ȝeid by. 1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 175 Think ȝe not schame, To hald sic moweris on the moine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † mowern.⁴ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.⁴, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < mow v.⁴ + -er suffix¹. colloquial. Obsolete. A cow. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] cowa800 nowtc1450 mower1673 colly1707 Scot1787 horny1808 moo-cow1810 sookie1838 bossy1844 sook1850 cow-creature1873 moo1930 1673 R. Head Alphabet. Canting Vocab. in Canting Acad. 41 Mower, a Cow. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Mower, a Cow. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 125/2 Mower, a cow.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.¹1225n.²1269n.³1440n.⁴1673
随便看	to save the lurch to save the phenomena to save the situation to save the world to save up to savour of the foist to savour of the pan to saw a chunk length off to saw a chunk off to saw a chunk piece off to saw gourds to saw one's hand to saw the air to saw wood to say to say a few words to say a good word about to say a good word for to say a mouthful to say adieu to say adieu to to say an ape's paternoster to say away to say b to a battledore to say before

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