mowhayn.
/ˈmaʊ(h)eɪ/, U.S. /ˈmaʊˌ(h)eɪ/ Chiefly English regional (Devon and Cornwall).
A yard or enclosure containing mows; a stack yard.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack-yard
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1612 T. Hughes in Star Chamber Proc. James I (P.R.O. STAC 8/236 Bundle 29) membr. 2 Dick Voller or els..John Yeo..will tell you in plaine tals That the [sic] found them two out by the mowheis pals.
1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms W. Devonshire in Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 328 Mowhay, stackyard.
1842 H. J. Daniel Bride of Scio 176 in Eng. Dial. Dict You've frum the muffy got to bring in barely.
1862 R. 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... To small Farmers and Vicars the Mowhay is the Farm Bank.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 38/2 Mowhay, an enclosure of ricks of corn or hay.
1919 D. H. Lawrence Nostalgia in Poetry Feb. 264 Can I not pass the sheds And through to the mowie?
1959 Listener 22 Jan. 174/2 The granite shafts in the old mowhay.
1997 Guardian 12 Nov. 20 Scattered sandstone farmsteads with..modern mowhays stacked with large round bales of straw and silage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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