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mowburn, v.|ˈməʊbɜːn|
[Back-formation from mowburnt.]
intr. Of hay, corn, etc.: To heat and ferment through being stacked too green.
1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 134 Be careful not to house it green, lest it mow-burn. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 266/2 The buyer has also to judge if it has been heated or ‘mow-burnt’, while lying in the field after being cut, or in the stack.
Hence ˈmowburn n., the process of becoming mowburnt; = mowheat (mow n.1 4).
1764Museum Rust. II. lxxv. 251 Your correspondent's method seems to threaten that dreadful malady, mow-burn. |