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lawnn.1

Brit. /lɔːn/, U.S. /lɔn/, /lɑn/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s laun(e, lawnd(e, Middle English–1600s laund(e, lawne, 1500s la(a)ne.
Etymology: According to Prof. Skeat, from the name of Laon in France. This suggestion has since been independently made by A. Thomas ( Romania XXIX. 182, 1900), who shows that linen manufactures were carried on extensively at Laon as late as the 18th cent. A slight difficulty is presented by the fact that the earliest known form of the word is launde , which long remained more frequent in use than the shorter form; this, however, may be due to association with laund n., lawn n.2
1. A kind of fine linen, resembling cambric; plural pieces or sorts of this linen.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > linen > types of > fine > lawn
lawn1415
layne1561
linon1901
1415 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 382 j plice de lawnd.
1423–4 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1423 §31. m. 20 Item, .i. remenaunt de laun, contenant .viij. alnz, pris l'alne .iiij. s. .iij. d.
c1440 Generydes 73 Ther was an hanged bedde, And ther vppon a shete of launde was spredde.
1483 Acc. Coronation Rich. III in Antiq. Repertory II. 251 A coyfe made of a plyte of lawne.
1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 50 A plyte of lawnde for a shirte for the childe of grace at Reding.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxlv But on her head she had a cap as she ware on the saturdai before with a cornet of laune.
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 46 You must tie the powder hard in a rag of Laune or thin Cambrick.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 38 Long haire and loose,..couered with a fine thinne vaile of Callico Lawne.
1640 in J. Noorthouck New Hist. London (1773) 838/2 Lawns, the whole piece 2d.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 29 In Vessels cover'd with fine Lawn, so as to admit the Air and keep out the Insects, no living thing was ever produced.
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 129 Bright in glossy silk, and flowing lawn.
1765 J. Hadley in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 5 Sold in the shops for 2s. 4d. per yard, under the name of long lawn.
1793 Miss Chowne in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1861) II. 511 If you can get fine lawns, bring them with you, for they are rare.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xi. 144 A summer mist arose;..It seemed a veil of filmy lawn.
1829 Young Lady's Bk. 501 Take a common vase..and cover it entirely with widow's-lawn.
figurative and in extended use.1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 187 Her bodye was..full of that laune wherof they make their webbes.1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vii. 253 Then neat and nimbly her new web she [sc. the spider] weaues With her fine shuttle circularly drawne Through all the circuit of her open lawne.1663 A. Cowley Hymn to Light xix The Virgin Lillies in their White, Are clad but with the Lawn of almost naked Light.Proverb.1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. viii. sig. C He that will selle lawne, er he can folde it, He shall repent hym er he haue solde it.1598 R. Barnfield Encomion Lady Pecunia xxxvi. sig. C2 No peece of Lawne so pure, but hath some fret.
2. spec. This fabric used for the sleeves of a bishop. Hence, the dignity or office of a bishop.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > office of
bishopdoma887
bishophoodc1000
bisprichea1300
thronec1390
mitrea1393
seea1393
bishopric1394
pontificality?a1425
chair1480
bishopry1535
episcopality1636
episcopate1641
episcopacy1685
lawna1732
cathedra1863
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > linen > types of > fine > lawn > types of
pleasance1426
lumberdyne1548
cobweb lawn1603
French lawn1629
quintain1674
lawna1732
grass lawn1843
Indiana1927
a1732 J. Gay Fables (1738) II. iv. 25 You ask me if I ever knew Court chaplains thus the lawn pursue.
1734 A. Pope Epist. to Visct. Cobham 5 A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn.
1763 C. Churchill Epist. to W. Hogarth 6 Whilst Thou In Lawn hadst whisper'd to a sleeping croud.
c1800 Syd. Smith in Lady Holland Mem. (1855) I. ii. 28 Those who were too honest to sell them [sc. liberal opinions] for the ermine of the judge or the lawn of the prelate.
1894 H. Caine Manxman v. xi. 315 He took one of the two chairs under the canopy; the other was taken by the Bishop in his lawn.
3.
a. An article of dress made of lawn. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > flax or hemp > linen > article of
chaiselc1320
lawn?a1505
linen1566
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 422 in Poems (1981) 124 Thy gay garmentis with mony gudely goun, Thy plesand lawn pinnit with goldin prene?
1573–80 G. Harvey Let.-bk. 103 No laanes or the like, to bewitch delite.
1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 204 They were covered with a lawne called Nacar.
1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 16 Her vpper garment was a silken lawne.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ii. viii. 18 Lest eyes should surfet with too greedy sight, Transparent lawns withhold, more to increase delight.
c1704 M. Prior Henry & Emma 360 To stop the wounds, my finest lawn I'd tear.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 185 Lawn, a white cambric handkerchief.
b. A piece of lawn used in torture.For an explanation of the torture of the ‘lawn’, see 1569 Jewel Expos. i Thess. in Wks. (1848) VII. 42–3. (Cf. linen ball n. at linen adj. and n. Compounds 2.)
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society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > linen ball
lawna1593
linen ball1630
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. L I learnde in Naples how..To strangle with a lawne thrust through [later 4tos down] the throte.
1622 S. Ward Life of Faith in Death 84 Here thou..shiuerest to heare of the strappado, the racke, or the Lawne.
4. technical. Short for lawn-sieve n.: A fine sieve, generally of silk, through which porcelain ‘slip’, cement, etc., are strained, to ensure uniform fineness.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > [noun] > sieve
sievec725
riddereOE
hair-sievea1100
riddlelOE
sift1499
try?a1500
searcer1540
range-sieve1542
ranging sieve1548
cribble1565
cribe1570
screen1573
sifter1611
scryc1615
clensieve1623
cernicle1657
incernicle1657
ranch-sievea1665
duster1667
drum1702
fry1707
harp1788
lawn-sieve1804
trial1825
separator1830
lawn1853
shaker1906
chinois1937
microscreen1959
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 453 [Porcelain] The mixture [of ‘slips’ or fluid clays] is now passed..through fine sieves or ‘lawns’ woven of silk, and containing 300 threads to the square inch.
1895 Times 10 Jan. 3/6 [Cement-manufacture]. The use of such lawns..would..be almost impracticable.
5. Botany. A name for Venus' Navelwort ( Cynoglossum officinale).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Boraginaceae (bugloss and allies) > [noun]
ribeOE
hound's-tonguec1000
ox-tonguea1325
rotheren tongue?a1350
buglossa1400
dog's tongue?a1425
lungwort1538
anchusa1548
sheep's tongue1552
cowslip of Jerusalem1578
Our Lady's milkwort1578
pulmonaria1578
sage of Jerusalem1578
wild comfrey1578
maiden-lips1589
bugloss cowslip1597
viper's bugloss1597
viper's herb1597
ribbie1607
lithospermon1646
wall bugloss1650
lady's glove1668
Venus's navelwort1678
spotted comfrey1688
cynogloss1705
Jerusalem sage1736
lawn1778
Mertensia1836
stickseed1843
Virginian cowslip1856
bluebell1858
gooseberry fool1858
Jerusalem cowslip1866
borage-wort1882
echium1883
rose noble1886
milksile-
1778 C. Milne Bot. Dict. (ed. 2) 22 Cynoglossum, Hound's Tongue, Venus's Navel Wort, Lawn.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations. See also lawn sleeves n.
a. attributive (‘made of or consisting of lawn’).
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1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy vii, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 103 Lawne Kercheefes fayre.
1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 86, in Bulwarke of Defence Coueryng the place with a Launde clothe.
1565 A. Golding in tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis To Rdr. sig. *iijv As Persian kynges did neuer go abrode with open face, But with some lawne or silken skarf.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge ii. ii. sig. C4v Looke on those lips, Those now lawne pillowes.
1697 tr. Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 284 The Embassadors are obliged..to put on certain little Lawn Cuffs, which they wear quite flat upon their sleeves.
1710 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 257. ⁋3 The Lawn Apron that was whiter than Ermin.
1711 Ld. Marshal's Order 26 Apr. in London Gaz. No. 4840/3 That the Peeresses..wear Black Silk, Laune Linnen, and White Gloves.
1819 J. Keats Eve St. Mark 53 From plaited lawn-frill, fine and thin, She lifted up her soft warm chin.
1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. ix. 199 Garnished with the snowiest of lawn frills and ruffles.
b. objective, as †lawn-maker.
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?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vjv Golde sheres, keuerchef launds, and reben makers.
c. instrumental, as lawn-robed adj. Also lawn-sleeved adj. at lawn sleeves n. Derivatives.
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society > faith > artefacts > vestments > clothing of particular functionaries > [adjective] > of prelate: clothed in lawn
lawn-sleeved1647
lawn-robed1719
lawned1848
1719 T. Tickell To Earl Warwick, On Death Addison The duties by the lawn-robed prelate pay'd.
C2.
lawn-man n. Obsolete (derisively) a bishop.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun]
bishopc897
patriarcheOE
bispa1300
ordinarya1325
ordinar?1403
father1418
discretion1421
pontificalc1440
diocesanc1450
rocheter1559
monseigneur1561
pope1563
bite-sheep1570
presul1577
rochet1581
diocesser1606
lawn sleevesc1640
episcopant1641
Right Reverend1681
diocesian1686
lawn-man1795
diocesiarch1805
bish1875
shire-bishop1880
1795 J. Wolcot Liberty's Last Squeak in Wks. (1812) III. 432 May those lawn-men, born to happier fate Chase not the Curate from their grand abode.
lawn-sieve n. a fine sieve, made of lawn (or silk), used in cookery, porcelain-manufacture, etc.: cf. sense 4.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > [noun] > sieve
sievec725
riddereOE
hair-sievea1100
riddlelOE
sift1499
try?a1500
searcer1540
range-sieve1542
ranging sieve1548
cribble1565
cribe1570
screen1573
sifter1611
scryc1615
clensieve1623
cernicle1657
incernicle1657
ranch-sievea1665
duster1667
drum1702
fry1707
harp1788
lawn-sieve1804
trial1825
separator1830
lawn1853
shaker1906
chinois1937
microscreen1959
1804 ‘Ignotus’ Culina 30 Run it through a lawn sieve.
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 492 The clay is reduced nearly to the consistence of milk with water, and the liquid passed through lawn sieves gradually increasing in fineness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lawnn.2

Brit. /lɔːn/, U.S. /lɔn/, /lɑn/
Forms: Also 1500s laune, 1600s lawne.
Etymology: Later form of laund n.
1.
a. An open space between woods; a glade. = laund n. Now archaic and dialect.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture
leasowc950
leasea1000
pasturea1300
common pasturea1325
grassland1324
laund1340
lea1357
gang1413
feedingc1430
grassa1500
raika1500
beast-gate1507
pasturagec1515
grazing1517
average1537
pasture groundc1537
walk1549
grassing1557
pastural1575
browsing1577
feed1580
pastureland1591
meadow pasture1614
green side1616
range1626
pastorage1628
tore1707
graziery1731
pasturing1759
permanent pasture1771
sweet-veld1785
walk land1797
run1804
sweet-grass1812
potrero1822
pasturage land1855
turn-out1895
lawn1899
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Sallus, a place voyde of trees, as a laune in a parke or forrest.
1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly sig. D4v Hir stature and hir shape was passing tall, Diana like, when longst the lawnes she goes.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 202 A goodly forrest..intermixed with fruitfull and flowry lawnes.
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 21 in Justa Edouardo King Ere the high lawns appear'd Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field.
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 145 The thistly lawn; the thick, intangled broom.
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (1892) I. xviii. 404 The hills..consist of a large lawn in the center of the two woods, that to the right of an immense extent.
1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner iv. 38 Thence look thou forth o'er wood and lawn Hoar with the frost-like dews of dawn!
1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd i. 25 She came where that lawn of the woods lay wide in the flood of light.
1899 Times 3 Mar. 15/3 So long as the favourite feeding places—lawns, as they are called—of their cattle are not interfered with,..no possible injury can be done to the commoners [of the New Forest].
figurative.1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse i. 120 Privacy was his Lawne, and discontent his Lure.
b. A stretch of untilled ground; an extent of grass-covered land. Also in generalized sense.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > grassland
wong971
greenc1225
clowrec1350
bentc1360
swarth?a1400
flaughtc1400
grassa1500
sward?1507
greenswarda1522
sward-earth1541
swarf1599
over-swarth1649
lawn1674
sod1729
swath1776
spine1786
swad1877
turfage1899
padang1909
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 70 Lawn in a Park: Plain untilled ground.
1749 L. Evans Middle Brit. Col. (1755) 11 They [Indians] fix their Towns commonly on the Edges of great Rivers for the Sake of the rich Lawns to sow their Corn in.
1794 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 756 Thou lavrock that springs frae the dews of the lawn.
1810 E. D. Clarke Trav. Var. Countries: Pt. 1st xi. 212 The roads (if a fine turf lawn may be so denominated).
1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. ii. 127 Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green.
1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. Lawn or Lawnd, unploughed land; the unploughed part of an arable field.
1890 Science 12 Sept. 141 A birdseye view..would show 60 acres of beautiful lawn besprinkled with buildings.
2. A portion of a garden or pleasure-ground, covered with grass, which is kept closely mown.Somewhat different in early use: cf. quot. 1733 and sense 1.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > lawn or grass-plot
grassOE
arbourc1380
harbour1505
green plot1566
grass plot1599
grass work1664
platband1725
lawn1733
garden lawn1771
short-grass1826
pelouse1853
1733 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. Lawn is a great Plain in a Park, or a spacious Plain adjoining to a noble Seat... As to the Situation of a Lawn, it will be best in the Front of the House, and to lie open to the neighbouring Country and not pent up with Trees.
1761 Descr. S. Carolina 6 Fine Savannahs..a Kind of natural Lawns, and some of them as beautiful as those made by Art.
1829 W. Wordsworth Poems Sentim. xxx This Lawn, a carpet all alive With shadows flung from leaves.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xii. 201 I had but a single day wherein to see..the beautiful lawns and gardens of the colleges.
1875 J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player 89 Finely sifted earth must now be spread over the lawn.
3. Bacteriology. A layer of bacteria uniformly distributed over the surface of a culture medium.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [noun] > culture or medium
culture1880
blood culture1881
cultivation1881
culture medium1883
pure culture1883
agar1885
broth1885
subculture1885
tube-culture1886
bouillon1887
stab-culture1889
streak culture1892
blood agar1893
microculture1893
shake culture1894
streak plate1895
broth culture1897
slant1899
plating1900
stock culture1903
touch preparation1908
tissue culture1912
plaque1924
slope1925
agar-agar1929
isolate1931
MacConkey1938
auxanogram1949
lawn1951
monolayer1952
replica plate1952
1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) xxiv. 433 Phage activity is readily observed on solid culture media. A plate is first thickly inoculated with susceptible bacteria to form a ‘lawn’ of growth.
1970 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xviii. 102/1 The routine test dilution (RTD) is determined by placing drops of tenfold dilutions of the phage suspension on a lawn of sensitive bacteria.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
lawn-shading adj.
ΚΠ
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. iii, in Lamia & Other Poems 192 Poplars, and lawn-shading palms.
b.
lawn-like adj.
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1879 I. L. Bird Lady's Life Rocky Mts. 121 Flowery pastures..sloping lawnlike to bright swift streams.
C2.
lawn billiards n. = troco n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > games resembling croquet > [noun]
closh1477
lawn billiards1873
troco1882
roque1899
golf-croquet1920
1873 Young Englishwoman Nov. 572/2 Jean would feel obliged if the Editor would tell her..if lawn billiards can be played on a croquet lawn?.. Is there a book of rules on lawn billiards?
1879 A. Trollope John Caldigate I. xvi. 213 Hunting, shooting, fishing,..lawn-billiards.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (Annandale) Troco, an old English game revived, formerly known as ‘lawn-billiards’..played on a lawn with wooden balls and a cue ending in a spoon-shaped iron projection. [But app. never so called in English. See trucks n.]
1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 934/2 The game [billiards] was at one time played on a lawn, like modern croquet... A later form of ‘lawn billiards’ again enjoyed a brief popularity during the latter half of the 19th century.
lawn-cutter n. = lawn-mower n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > lawn-mower
steam lawn-mower1812
grass cutter1834
grass mower1855
lawn-mower1875
grass trimmer1876
lawn-cutter1897
motor mower1907
power mower1913
lawn edger1960
Strimmer1978
1897 S. Hale Let. 24 Mar. (1919) 315 Such a delicious drive,..and the lawn-cutters making hay smells.
lawn-meet n. the meeting of a hunt in front of a gentleman's house.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > meeting of hunt
field day1774
meet1838
lawn-meet1890
gala meet1894
1890 Daily News 8 Dec. 5/5 A lawn meet of the West Norfolk Hunt took place at Sandringham.
lawn-mower n. a machine provided with revolving spiral or horizontal knives for cutting the grass on a lawn.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > lawn-mower
steam lawn-mower1812
grass cutter1834
grass mower1855
lawn-mower1875
grass trimmer1876
lawn-cutter1897
motor mower1907
power mower1913
lawn edger1960
Strimmer1978
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lawn-mower.
lawn-party n. a party held on a lawn, a garden-party.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > garden-party
garden party1845
lawn-party1852
1852 W. Collins Basil (1856) v. 17 At pic-nics, lawn-parties, little country gatherings of all sorts.
1937 R. S. Morton Woman Surgeon xxxi. 346 Many interesting people gather in our frequent outings, lawn parties and other expressions of comradeship.
1955 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (ed. 3) viii. 181 Parades, picnics, funerals, Mardi Gras, lawn parties, dances—he and his band were in demand everywhere.
1973 Lebende Sprachen 18 38/1 US lawn party—BE/US garden party—Gartenfest.
lawn sand n. a top-dressing of ammonium sulphate and iron sulphate mixed with sand, used as a fertilizer and weed-killer for lawns.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > lawn sand
lawn sand1907
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) p. xlii/4 Lawn sand.
1909 T. W. Sanders Lawns & Greens vii. 68 Methods of exterminating daisies are to put a pinch of salt on the crown of each plant, or to sprinkle ‘Watson's Lawn Sand’ over the infested parts.
1939 R. B. Dawson Pract. Lawn Craft xxi. 152 It may be found more convenient for owners of quite small areas of turf to buy a ready compounded lawn sand.
1968 Punch 20 Aug. 304/2 Add 1 oz of iron sulphate to 15 oz of dry sludge and you have a moss killing ‘lawnsand’.
lawn-sprayer n. a sprayer for diffusing a fine spray of water over a lawn.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > irrigation devices
acequia madre1835
trunk1856
irrigation-wheel1864
lawn-sprinklera1884
levada1885
knapsack sprayer1897
lawn-sprayer1943
1943 W. Lewis Let. 15 Aug. (1963) 362 Watching the blue jays..having a shower-bath in a lawn-sprayer.
lawn-sprinkler n. a machine with revolving tubular arms from which water is sprinkled like rain.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > irrigation devices
acequia madre1835
trunk1856
irrigation-wheel1864
lawn-sprinklera1884
levada1885
knapsack sprayer1897
lawn-sprayer1943
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 533/1 Lawn Sprinkler.

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lawn chair n. North American a garden chair, esp. a reclining garden chair.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs
farthingale chair1552
side chair1582
high chair1609
scroll chair1614
Turkey chair1683
curule chair1695
reading chair1745
rush-bottom1754
conversation-chair1793
Windsor tub1800
Trafalgar chair1808
beehive-chair1816
nursing chair1826
Hitchcockc1828
toilet seat1829
kangaroo1834
prie-dieu1838
tub-chair1839
barrel-chair1850
Cromwell chair1868
office chair1874
swivel-chair1885
steamer-chair1886
suggan chair1888
lawn chair1895
saddle seat1895
Bombay chair1896
veranda-chair1902
X chair1904
Yorkshire chair1906
three legs and a swinger1916
saddlebag1919
riempie stool1933
gaspipe chair1934
slipper chair1938
Eames chair1946
contour chair1948
sling-back1948
sling chair1957
booster chair1960
booster seat1967
beanbag1969
sack chair1970
papasan1980
Muskoka chair1987
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 617/1 Lawn Chair, high back, comfortable and durable; will stand outdoor use.
1987 J. Wilcox Miss Undine's Living Room viii. 113 Pulling up one of the webbed lawn chairs, the young man settled into it.

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lawn edger n. a cutting device for trimming the turf on the edges of a lawn.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > lawn-mower
steam lawn-mower1812
grass cutter1834
grass mower1855
lawn-mower1875
grass trimmer1876
lawn-cutter1897
motor mower1907
power mower1913
lawn edger1960
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1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift 177 Why pay twenty dollars or more for an electric lawn-edger when you can..make one for little or nothing?
1988 Independent 9 July 18 There should be none of the wavy-edged beds that look as if they have been cut out by a man drunk in charge of a lawn edger.

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lawn bowling n. any of several forms of the game of bowls played on a grass (or sometimes dirt) surface.
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1868 Times 5 June 15/6 The pleasure gardens in the rear..are admirably arranged for the amusements of archery, croquet, lawn bowling, and dancing.
1939 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 15 Sept. 32/8 Mrs. M. Folkins of Redlands, Calif., walked off with the women's international singles lawn bowling championship yesterday at Golden Gate Park.
1998 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 4 July w2 Lawn bowlers would like nothing better than to get rid of the popular image of lawn bowling as an ‘old-farts' game’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lawnv.

Brit. /lɔːn/, U.S. /lɔn/, /lɑn/
Etymology: < lawn n.2
transitive. To turn (arable land) into lawn or grass-land; to make (ground) lawn-like.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [verb (transitive)] > turn into lawn
lawn1766
1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide (ed. 2) Epil. iii. 137 To improve an old Family Seat By Lawning a hundred good Acres of Wheat.
1781–1814 Parliamentary Hist. XXI. 1282 Several of the country clergy..chose to lawn their church yards and cut away the noxious yew trees.
1788 A. Young Jrnl. 10 Oct. in Trav. France (1792) i. 99 A gently falling vale with a little stream through it, that might be made any thing of for lawning and watering.
1868 J. Doran Saints & Sinners I. 256 This led in later times to lawning cemeteries on the part of incumbents, who would not plant since they might not cut down.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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