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The natural heating up and fermenting of hay or corn that has been stacked when it is damp or too green; = mowheat n. (b) at mow, n.1 compounds 2.
†(a) hay or corn spoilt by being stacked damp or too green (obsolete); (b) the rotting of hay or corn, caused by overheating and fermenting in the…