mownadj.

Brit.

/məʊn/, U.S.

/moʊn/

Forms: see mow v.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: English mown.

Etymology: < mown, past participle of mow v.¹ Compare later mowed adj.

Cut down with a scythe or a mowing machine. Also, of a tract of land: that has had its grass, etc., cut down with a scythe or a mowing machine. Also in extended use.

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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

OE Paris Psalter (1932) cii. 14 Beoð mannes dagas mawenum hege æghwær anlice.

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 52 Mowne hawme being dry, no longer let ly.

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lxxii. 6 Hee shall come downe like raine vpon the mowen grasse.

1639 T. Heywood Londini Status Pacatus sig. C3 The Honourable Aged, lovely Youth And Infant, in promiscuous heapes are throwne (By indifferent havock) like a medow mowne.

1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. ix. 199 The half-mown crop of hair that bristled from one side of his countenance, invited some wags to make merry at his expence.

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 359 They..can house their mown corn as early as they could house sickled corn.

1839 R. M. Bird Adventures Robin Day I. ix. 72 Gawky fellows of eighteen or nineteen, with mown chins and bass voices.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1068 A mown stook does not look so well as a reaped one.

1906 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 386 Untrodden stretches of mown grass.

1980 G. Lord Fortress i. 12 A flat, mown acre, with a neat little weatherboard schoolhouse on it.

2000 Leyland's Austral. Winter 39/1 Large Eastern Grey Kangaroos lazily lounge in scattered groups all through the mown grasses of the campground.

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

单词	mown
释义	mownadj. Brit. /məʊn/, U.S. /moʊn/ Forms: see mow v.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: English mown. Etymology: < mown, past participle of mow v.¹ Compare later mowed adj. Cut down with a scythe or a mowing machine. Also, of a tract of land: that has had its grass, etc., cut down with a scythe or a mowing machine. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ 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 OE Paris Psalter (1932) cii. 14 Beoð mannes dagas mawenum hege æghwær anlice. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 52 Mowne hawme being dry, no longer let ly. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lxxii. 6 Hee shall come downe like raine vpon the mowen grasse. View more context for this quotation 1639 T. Heywood Londini Status Pacatus sig. C3 The Honourable Aged, lovely Youth And Infant, in promiscuous heapes are throwne (By indifferent havock) like a medow mowne. 1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. ix. 199 The half-mown crop of hair that bristled from one side of his countenance, invited some wags to make merry at his expence. 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 359 They..can house their mown corn as early as they could house sickled corn. 1839 R. M. Bird Adventures Robin Day I. ix. 72 Gawky fellows of eighteen or nineteen, with mown chins and bass voices. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1068 A mown stook does not look so well as a reaped one. 1906 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 386 Untrodden stretches of mown grass. 1980 G. Lord Fortress i. 12 A flat, mown acre, with a neat little weatherboard schoolhouse on it. 2000 Leyland's Austral. Winter 39/1 Large Eastern Grey Kangaroos lazily lounge in scattered groups all through the mown grasses of the campground. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.OE
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