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mowhay dial.|ˈməʊheɪ, ˈməʊɪ|
[f. mow n.1 + hay n.2 2.]
A stack-yard, a rick-yard.
Given as Devon and Cornwall in E.D.D.
1862R. S. Hawker Let. 14 Sept. in C. E. Byles Life & Lett. R. S. Hawker (1905) xvi. 362 Now I trust to be able to pay my Farm Wages in Wheat as the custom is, while for the last two years I have had to find money instead. To small Farmers and Vicars the Mowhay is the Farm Bank. 1880M. A. Courtney in Courtney & Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 38/2 Mowhay, an enclosure of ricks of corn or hay. 1959Listener 22 Jan. 174/2 The granite shafts in the old mowhay. |