mow

verb

1. (transitive)To cut down grass or crops.

   “He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.”

   “Just let me wake up in the morning to the smell of new-mown hay.”

2. (often, transitive)To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.

   “In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]”

   “On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.”

3. To make grimaces, mock.

   “For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;”

   “Nodding, becking, and mowing.”

   “He mowed at me, and, bowing with ironical politeness, pointed to the house.”

4. To put into mows.

noun

1. The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).

   “The lawn hasn't had a mow for a couple of months, so it's like a jungle out there!”

2. A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.

   “I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit.”

   “At times, they seemed to be playing an especially orgiastic version of Stick Cricket, all computerised mows over midwicket and 30 off the over.”

3. (dialectal)A scornful grimace; a wry face.

   “Those that paint them dying […] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.”

   “Make mows at him.”

4. (regional)A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
5. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
6. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of mew (a seagull)
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of meals on wheels.

name

1. A surname.