mowingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈmaʊɪŋ/,

/ˈməʊɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmaʊɪŋ/,

/ˈmoʊɪŋ/

Forms: Middle English mawing, Middle English mouwing, Middle English mouwyng, Middle English mowyng, Middle English mowynge, 1500s– mowing.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.³, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < mow v.³ + -ing suffix¹. In early use perhaps directly < mow n.² + -ing suffix¹.

Now rare.

†1. The action of deriding or mocking something; derision, scorn. Also: an object of derision. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun]

hokerOE

hethingc1175

scornc1175

gabbinga1225

bourd1320

scoffc1330

illusiona1382

mowinga1382

derisiona1400

mockery?a1439

alluding1535

dor1552

jerking1565

mock1569

frumpery1582

subsannation1587

floutage1600

ridiculous1605

ludibry1637

ridicule1675

razoo1888

stick1956

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms lxxviii. 4 Wee ben maad reproof to oure neȝeboris, mouwing & scornyng to þem þat ben in oure cumpas.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Hosea vii. 16 This the mowyng, or scornyng [L. subsannatio], of hem in lond of Egypt.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Psalms xxxiv. 16 Thei temptiden me; thei scornyden me with mowyng.

c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 41 (MED) We muste forbere blasphemyng, chiding..mowyng, scornyng, and suche oþire toward god.

2. The action of grimacing or making faces; an instance of this. Later usually in collocation with mopping.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun] > grimace or distortion > making

frowningc1400

mowing1440

frouncing1530

writhing1577

mopping1615

working1770

girning1900

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 39 Blerynge or mowynge wythe the mowthe, valgia.

c1450 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 29 Grennynge & mowynge at þi table eschewe.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere i. p. lxiiii [Quoting Tyndale] The preste..playeth oute the reste vnder sylence with signes and profers, with noddynge, beckynge, and mowynge.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 15 If som Smithfeild Ruffian take up..som new mowing with the mouth.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 7 Because of their marueilous and diuers mowings, mouings, voices, and gestures.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Minauderies, foolish trickes, apish pranks, mumpings, mowings.

1667 J. Lacy Sauny the Scott (1698) ii. i I take as Muckle Pleasure, Sir, in Scratten and Scrubben, as ye de in Tiplin and Mowing.

1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. xi. 347 He skipped up to us..with sundry moppings and mowings.

1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 110 Such a mopping and a mowing.

1954 G. Barker Vision of Beasts & Gods 24 A pillar to post Mopping and mowing of a cause that lost Its way.

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† mowingn.²

Forms: late Middle English mowynge.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English mowe , may v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < mowe, variant of may v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

Obsolete. rare.

Ability, power.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > [noun]

speed971

mightOE

ferec1175

evenc1225

powerc1300

possibilityc1385

actualitya1398

actualnessa1398

mowing?a1425

virtuality1483

cana1500

canning1549

reach1556

capability1587

strain1593

capableness1594

ablesse1598

fathoma1616

dacity1636

factivitya1643

capacity1647

range1695

span1805

quality1856

faculty1859

octane1989

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. iv. 155 The mowynge of schrewes [L. malorum potestas], which mowynge the semeth to ben unworthy, nis no mowynge.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

mowingn.³

Brit.

/ˈməʊɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmoʊɪŋ/

Forms: see mow v.¹ and -ing suffix¹; also 1500s moeing, 1500s moyng, 1600s moweing, 1700s moing (North American), 1800s ma'ing (English regional (northern)), 1800s– maain' (English regional (northern)), 1800s– maing (English regional (northern)), 1900s– mounding (U.S. regional), 1900s– mowning (U.S. regional); also Scottish pre-1700 maing.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < mow v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of cutting down grass, corn, etc.; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing

reapingc1350

mowinga1425

shearing1779

grass seeding1882

mow1975

a1425 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (London Univ.) (1873) C. ix. 186 (MED) Wedyng and to mowyng.

1477–8 in E. Hobhouse Churchwardens' Accts. (1890) 192 For mawing and carrying home of strawe for the bakehouse.

1494 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 278 Paid for mowyng and teddyng.

?a1527 in Regulations & Establishm. Househ. Earl of Northumberland (1905) 24 Item to be payd..for the Mawynge Makynge and Cariage of all my Hey.

1575 Stanford Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquary 17 (1888) 171 It. for moyng and kockyng of an acre of pulsse.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. xiv. 571 The stalke is very shittle in mowing, and therefore flyeth from the edge of the syth.

1669 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ 269 A cradle is a frame of wood fixed to a sythe for the mowing of corn.

1759 E. Holyoke in G. F. Dow Holyoke Diaries (1911) 20 First mowing of my Oats.

1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 328 Ten oxen..broke into the manured field which had been hayned for mowing.

1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 283/2 Mowing must not be neglected where you have to keep the grass in good order.

1918 Farmers' Bull. No. 987. 3 If mowing is done in the morning and raking in the afternoon, more men and horses than usual will be required.

1990 Which? 21 Apr. 1/2 If the grass looks scorched raise the cutting height for a couple of mowings.

b. concrete. The quantity of grass, etc., cut at one time. Also in plural: cut grass, etc., obtained by mowing. Cf. math n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > mowing of grass > amount mowed

mowinga1576

strake1585

mowth1613

swape1614

sweepage1628

sweep1672

a1576 L. Nowell Vocabularium Saxonicum (1952) 119/2 Mæð, mawing, math.

1611 Bible (King James) Amos vii. 1 It was the latter grouth after the kings mowings .

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 557 The first mowing thereof for the Kings use (which is wont to be sooner then the common mathe).

1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner vi. l. 267 Into beds made of the mowings of grass, offage herbs, greens, or long light dung.

1745 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman VI. ii. 77 The second Mowing, or soft Hay, is deemed as well for Cows.

1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 48 I sold the first, second, third, and fourth mowings at a shilling per rod.

1802 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees xxv. 233 You must lay some short-grass mowings..at the bottoms of the large baskets.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) at Ma'ing Mowing. A day's mowing is about three roods.

1911 N.E.D. at Scythe-cradle A framework of wood fastened to a scythe for carrying the mowings clean into the swath.

1991 Country-side Spring 44/1 Since the mowings are recycled back to the soil by the worms the grass doesn't need fertilising.

2. U.S. regional (chiefly New England). Land on which grass is grown for hay; a plot of such land, a hayfield.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > for hay

mowing1741

1741 in H. H. Metcalf & O. G. Hammond Probate Rec. New Hampsh. (1915) III. 71 One peice [sic] of Woodland..with about an Acre of mowing.

1786 Mem. Amer. Acad. Sci. (1793) II. 120 This extent contains..as fine ploughland and luxuriant pasture and mowing, as I had before seen.

1788 Massachusetts Spy 19 June 4/3 Said Farm consists of mowing, pasturing, and orcharding, and is well watered.

1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks iv. 37 And be off lying in the mowing, like a patridge, when they come after ye.

1891 Notes & Queries 6 204 These rings were simply round patches of some kind of grass..amidst the richer grasses of a permanent ‘mowing’, for we used to call a hay-field a ‘mowing’ in those days.

1937 C. E. Crane Let me show you Vermont 33 On the west side of our mountains a meadow is a meadow..but on the east side a meadow is a mowin'.

1984 R. L. Bushman Joseph Smith & Beginnings of Mormonism i. 14 All the rest of the improved land, 619 acres in total, was given to pasture and mowing.

2007 Shelburne Falls (Mass.) Independent 26 Apr. (Electronic ed.) The pastures and the mowing were all played out because nobody had been fertilizing.

Compounds

C1.

mowing-crook n.

ΚΠ

1943 Antiquity 17 203 To use a mowing-crook such as one still sees used in connection with the swap-hook in this country.

† mowing-crop n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1766 Museum Rusticum 6 30 Burnet will rarely make a mowing-crop the first year.

1779 Farmer's Mag. Mar. 76 Taking two mowing crops is the best husbandry, making the land cleaner.

mowing meadow n.

ΚΠ

1743 Pennsylvania Gaz. 17 Mar. 3/3 (advt.) A Plantation situate in the Township of Deptford, Gloucester County, West New Jersey, containing 230 Acres of Land, 100 Acres clear'd, near 20 Acres thereof good mowing Meadow.

1799 G. Washington Writings (1893) XIV. 231 I am not sanguine enough to expect that it will make good mowing meadow.

1965 Ecology 46 299/2 The area had been undisturbed for at least 20 years; it had been a mowing meadow in the 1930's, however.

mowing scythe n.

ΚΠ

1577 Edinb. Test. VI. f. 64^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mawin(g Ane new mawing syth price thairof [13s. 4d.].

1630 Dumfries Test. A. 250 Twa maing sythes worth xxx s. the peice.

1779 in New Jersey Archives 2nd Ser. III. 478 For sale,..a few dozen of mowing scythes.

a1918 G. Stuart 40 Years on Frontier (1925) I. 184 Last Sunday Granville lent Dempsey's employees a mowing scythe.

1983 Midwestern Jrnl. Lang. & Folklore 9 48 Mowing scythe.

C2.

mowing field n. a field of mowing grass, a hayfield.

ΚΠ

1788 Connecticut Gaz. 25 July 2/2 A stranger with a sympathizing heart, would drop a tear..to see..large mowing fields the grass destroyed, cut to pieces, and washed against the walls and fences.

1819 E. Evans Pedestrious Tour 145 How many of our mowing fields are..shamefully poached and grubbed by horses and sheep!

1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere xxx. 224 The corn-crake..crept through the long grass of the mowing-field.

1965 E. Richardson Living Island 31 A few barn swallows built in the trees bordering the mowing-field.

1985 William & Mary Q. 42 98 The average White Indian owned..a bit over twelve improved acres (tilled land, pastures, and mowing fields).

mowing grass n. grass that is allowed to grow long, being reserved for mowing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > standing crop > grass for mowing

mowing grass1652

1652 Mercurius Democritus No. 13. 102 A Yeoman of that Town finding a great flock of Geese in his mowing-grasse, put on his staff, and drove them to the Pownd.

1726 G. Odingsells Capricious Lovers iii. viii. 33 She leaps like a Cat in mowing Grass—and stamps like an old Ram when he faces his Enemy.

1774 Ann. Reg. 1773 112 A horse had got into his mowing-grass.

1884 R. Jefferies Life of Fields 50 Only a few [bees] go down to the mowing grass.

1955 Times 13 May 12/6 Hathersage and Castleton and Edale had become over-run..by the less-desirable types, the litter-louts, the sheep-chasers, the fence-breakers, the mowing-grass destroyers, [etc.].

mowing ground n. originally and chiefly U.S. land on which grass is grown for mowing; a plot of such land.

ΚΠ

1634 Cambr. Prop. Rec. 1 [The constable] shall make a surveyinge of the Houses backsids Corne ffeilds Moweing grounds and other lands.

1722 in Essex Inst. Historical Coll. (1906) XLII. 90 [To pay damages for] digging in any Corne field,..mowing ground.

1787 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 222 The same difference was equally obvious on a piece of mowing grd. not far distant from it.

1800 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. VII. 245 [The Isles of Shoals] lie in common, except a few small inclosures for gardens and mowing ground.

1998 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 23 Jan. 48 The farm has 190ha (470 acres) of in-bye and mowing ground.

mowing land n. U.S. = mowing ground n. (cf. mow-land n. at mow v.¹ Compounds).

ΚΠ

1640 in Connecticut Hist. Soc. Coll. (1912) XIV. 357 One parsell called Swamp, now mowing land.

1704 in K. A. Pritchard Waterbury (Connecticut) Proprietors' Rec. (1911) 60 No man shal stak horses in the moing land in said feild.

1858 C. L. Flint Milch Cows 169 The grasses differ widely; and their value as feed for cows will depend..on the management of pastures and mowing-lands.

1994 William & Mary Q. 51 63 Farmers had to create more pasture and mowing lands.

mowing lot n. U.S. = mow-lot n. at mow v.¹ Compounds.

ΚΠ

1763 Pennsylvania Gaz. 3 Mar. 3/2 (advt.) A large upland Mowing Lot has commonly been rented with the Stores.

1840 S. S. Arnold in Proc. Vermont Hist. Soc. (1940) 8 147 3 cows of Mr. Stoddards began to go in my mowing lot.

1899 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 180/1 A considerable farm, with all the accompaniments of garden lot, mowing lot, large barn, corn barn, horse stable, cow stable, and dog kennel.

1965–70 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 702/1 A piece of land with a hay crop planted on it... Mowing lot.

mowing machine n. a machine for cutting grass, etc.; a mechanical mower.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > mowing machine

mowing machine1822

mower1851

1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 8 June 3/1 A new Mowing Machine, invented by J. Bailey, of Chester county, which with the aid of one man and a horse, mows eight acres of grass per day,..was tried.

1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story viii The mowing machine would be used in the timothy fields.

1931 E. F. Benson Mapp & Lucia iv. 102 I can hear the click of the mowing-machine on the lawn.

1987 S. Calligan Points to Prove 29 A mowing machine coming within the definition of a motor bicycle is exempt.

† mowing-machine bird n. Obsolete rare the grasshopper warbler, Locustella naevia.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Locustella (grasshopper-warbler)

grasshopper lark1766

grasshopper warbler1790

Savi's warbler1843

reel-bird1856

reeler1866

Pallas's warbler1881

mowing-machine bird1887

1887 A. C. Smith Birds Wilts. 154 [The Grasshopper Warbler] is..known as the ‘mowing-machine bird’, in allusion to its remarkable note.

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† mowingn.⁴

Forms: see mow v.⁴ and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.⁴, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < mow v.⁴ + -ing suffix¹.

Obsolete.

The lowing or mooing of cattle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > sound made by > making sound

lowingOE

routinga1425

bellowing1552

mowing1553

mooing1844

1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 17^v/1 The mowinge or lowynge of beastes, mugitus.

1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya ii. 10 Making great noise, with cries like the mowing of Bulles.

1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Eclogs vi. 18 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks King Pretus daughter fild the fields with mowings like to kine.

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† mowingn.⁵

Forms: 1500s mowghing.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < mow v.² + -ing suffix¹. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (mɑu·iŋ) /ˈmaʊɪŋ/.

Obsolete. rare.

The action of stacking hay, corn, etc., in mows.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking

stacking1531

mowing1572

ricking1688

thack and rape1787

tippling1803

1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Mowghing or heaping, aceruatio.

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mowingadj.

Brit.

/ˈmaʊɪŋ/,

/ˈməʊɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmaʊɪŋ/,

/ˈmoʊɪŋ/

Forms: 1500s mowyng, 1500s mowynge, 1800s– mowing.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.³, -ing suffix².

Etymology: < mow v.³ + -ing suffix².

Now rare.

Grimacing; (in extended use) mocking, derisive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [adjective]

gamelyOE

hathfula1250

scornfula1400

hathlya1425

mockisha1513

mockinga1529

mowinga1529

deriding1530

hethingfulc1540

bourding1552

make-sport1582

frumping1587

yarking1593

jerking1596

bobbing1605

derident1609

buffoonizing1611

scoptical?1611

scommatizing1613

derisory1618

ridiculous1622

ludibriousa1643

frumpish1647

twitting1655

derisivea1662

derisorious1664

scoptic1670

ridiculing1684

derisionarya1704

mockful1754

irrisory1846

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [adjective] > distorted

writhen?a1425

girning1447

mowinga1529

writhed1568

mumping1594

antic1595

frowned1598

screwed1609

sour1611

wreathed1645

fluish1674

working1717

screwed-up1728

frownful1771

grimacing1804

quirked1931

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiiii ^v To mockynge to mowynge to lyke a Iackenapes.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 358/1 And then should stande vp and preache vppon a stoole and make a mowyng sermon.

1858 S. Wilberforce Let. in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1881) II. xi. 394 To get rid of the nauseous Romanizing peculiarities of these mowing apes.

1909 J. London in Pacific Monthly Dec. 570/1 One of the mowing, ape-like travesties emitted a wild shriek of madness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹a1382

n.²?a1425

n.³a1425

n.⁴1553

n.⁵1572

adj.a1529

单词	mowing
释义	mowingn.¹ Brit. /ˈmaʊɪŋ/, /ˈməʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmaʊɪŋ/, /ˈmoʊɪŋ/ Forms: Middle English mawing, Middle English mouwing, Middle English mouwyng, Middle English mowyng, Middle English mowynge, 1500s– mowing. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.³, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < mow v.³ + -ing suffix¹. In early use perhaps directly < mow n.² + -ing suffix¹. Now rare. †1. The action of deriding or mocking something; derision, scorn. Also: an object of derision. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] hokerOE hethingc1175 scornc1175 gabbinga1225 bourd1320 scoffc1330 illusiona1382 mowinga1382 derisiona1400 mockery?a1439 alluding1535 dor1552 jerking1565 mock1569 frumpery1582 subsannation1587 floutage1600 ridiculous1605 ludibry1637 ridicule1675 razoo1888 stick1956 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms lxxviii. 4 Wee ben maad reproof to oure neȝeboris, mouwing & scornyng to þem þat ben in oure cumpas. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Hosea vii. 16 This the mowyng, or scornyng [L. subsannatio], of hem in lond of Egypt. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Psalms xxxiv. 16 Thei temptiden me; thei scornyden me with mowyng. c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 41 (MED) We muste forbere blasphemyng, chiding..mowyng, scornyng, and suche oþire toward god. 2. The action of grimacing or making faces; an instance of this. Later usually in collocation with mopping. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun] > grimace or distortion > making frowningc1400 mowing1440 frouncing1530 writhing1577 mopping1615 working1770 girning1900 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 39 Blerynge or mowynge wythe the mowthe, valgia. c1450 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 29 Grennynge & mowynge at þi table eschewe. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere i. p. lxiiii [Quoting Tyndale] The preste..playeth oute the reste vnder sylence with signes and profers, with noddynge, beckynge, and mowynge. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 15 If som Smithfeild Ruffian take up..som new mowing with the mouth. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 7 Because of their marueilous and diuers mowings, mouings, voices, and gestures. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Minauderies, foolish trickes, apish pranks, mumpings, mowings. 1667 J. Lacy Sauny the Scott (1698) ii. i I take as Muckle Pleasure, Sir, in Scratten and Scrubben, as ye de in Tiplin and Mowing. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. xi. 347 He skipped up to us..with sundry moppings and mowings. 1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 110 Such a mopping and a mowing. 1954 G. Barker Vision of Beasts & Gods 24 A pillar to post Mopping and mowing of a cause that lost Its way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mowingn.² Forms: late Middle English mowynge. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English mowe , may v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < mowe, variant of may v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Obsolete. rare. Ability, power. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] speed971 mightOE ferec1175 evenc1225 powerc1300 possibilityc1385 actualitya1398 actualnessa1398 mowing?a1425 virtuality1483 cana1500 canning1549 reach1556 capability1587 strain1593 capableness1594 ablesse1598 fathoma1616 dacity1636 factivitya1643 capacity1647 range1695 span1805 quality1856 faculty1859 octane1989 ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. iv. 155 The mowynge of schrewes [L. malorum potestas], which mowynge the semeth to ben unworthy, nis no mowynge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). mowingn.³ Brit. /ˈməʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmoʊɪŋ/ Forms: see mow v.¹ and -ing suffix¹; also 1500s moeing, 1500s moyng, 1600s moweing, 1700s moing (North American), 1800s ma'ing (English regional (northern)), 1800s– maain' (English regional (northern)), 1800s– maing (English regional (northern)), 1900s– mounding (U.S. regional), 1900s– mowning (U.S. regional); also Scottish pre-1700 maing. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < mow v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of cutting down grass, corn, etc.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing reapingc1350 mowinga1425 shearing1779 grass seeding1882 mow1975 a1425 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (London Univ.) (1873) C. ix. 186 (MED) Wedyng and to mowyng. 1477–8 in E. Hobhouse Churchwardens' Accts. (1890) 192 For mawing and carrying home of strawe for the bakehouse. 1494 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 278 Paid for mowyng and teddyng. ?a1527 in Regulations & Establishm. Househ. Earl of Northumberland (1905) 24 Item to be payd..for the Mawynge Makynge and Cariage of all my Hey. 1575 Stanford Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquary 17 (1888) 171 It. for moyng and kockyng of an acre of pulsse. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. xiv. 571 The stalke is very shittle in mowing, and therefore flyeth from the edge of the syth. 1669 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ 269 A cradle is a frame of wood fixed to a sythe for the mowing of corn. 1759 E. Holyoke in G. F. Dow Holyoke Diaries (1911) 20 First mowing of my Oats. 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 328 Ten oxen..broke into the manured field which had been hayned for mowing. 1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 283/2 Mowing must not be neglected where you have to keep the grass in good order. 1918 Farmers' Bull. No. 987. 3 If mowing is done in the morning and raking in the afternoon, more men and horses than usual will be required. 1990 Which? 21 Apr. 1/2 If the grass looks scorched raise the cutting height for a couple of mowings. b. concrete. The quantity of grass, etc., cut at one time. Also in plural: cut grass, etc., obtained by mowing. Cf. math n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > mowing of grass > amount mowed mowinga1576 strake1585 mowth1613 swape1614 sweepage1628 sweep1672 a1576 L. Nowell Vocabularium Saxonicum (1952) 119/2 Mæð, mawing, math. 1611 Bible (King James) Amos vii. 1 It was the latter grouth after the kings mowings . View more context for this quotation 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 557 The first mowing thereof for the Kings use (which is wont to be sooner then the common mathe). 1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner vi. l. 267 Into beds made of the mowings of grass, offage herbs, greens, or long light dung. 1745 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman VI. ii. 77 The second Mowing, or soft Hay, is deemed as well for Cows. 1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 48 I sold the first, second, third, and fourth mowings at a shilling per rod. 1802 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees xxv. 233 You must lay some short-grass mowings..at the bottoms of the large baskets. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) at Ma'ing Mowing. A day's mowing is about three roods. 1911 N.E.D. at Scythe-cradle A framework of wood fastened to a scythe for carrying the mowings clean into the swath. 1991 Country-side Spring 44/1 Since the mowings are recycled back to the soil by the worms the grass doesn't need fertilising. 2. U.S. regional (chiefly New England). Land on which grass is grown for hay; a plot of such land, a hayfield. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > for hay mowing1741 1741 in H. H. Metcalf & O. G. Hammond Probate Rec. New Hampsh. (1915) III. 71 One peice [sic] of Woodland..with about an Acre of mowing. 1786 Mem. Amer. Acad. Sci. (1793) II. 120 This extent contains..as fine ploughland and luxuriant pasture and mowing, as I had before seen. 1788 Massachusetts Spy 19 June 4/3 Said Farm consists of mowing, pasturing, and orcharding, and is well watered. 1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks iv. 37 And be off lying in the mowing, like a patridge, when they come after ye. 1891 Notes & Queries 6 204 These rings were simply round patches of some kind of grass..amidst the richer grasses of a permanent ‘mowing’, for we used to call a hay-field a ‘mowing’ in those days. 1937 C. E. Crane Let me show you Vermont 33 On the west side of our mountains a meadow is a meadow..but on the east side a meadow is a mowin'. 1984 R. L. Bushman Joseph Smith & Beginnings of Mormonism i. 14 All the rest of the improved land, 619 acres in total, was given to pasture and mowing. 2007 Shelburne Falls (Mass.) Independent 26 Apr. (Electronic ed.) The pastures and the mowing were all played out because nobody had been fertilizing. Compounds C1. mowing-crook n. ΚΠ 1943 Antiquity 17 203 To use a mowing-crook such as one still sees used in connection with the swap-hook in this country. † mowing-crop n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1766 Museum Rusticum 6 30 Burnet will rarely make a mowing-crop the first year. 1779 Farmer's Mag. Mar. 76 Taking two mowing crops is the best husbandry, making the land cleaner. mowing meadow n. ΚΠ 1743 Pennsylvania Gaz. 17 Mar. 3/3 (advt.) A Plantation situate in the Township of Deptford, Gloucester County, West New Jersey, containing 230 Acres of Land, 100 Acres clear'd, near 20 Acres thereof good mowing Meadow. 1799 G. Washington Writings (1893) XIV. 231 I am not sanguine enough to expect that it will make good mowing meadow. 1965 Ecology 46 299/2 The area had been undisturbed for at least 20 years; it had been a mowing meadow in the 1930's, however. mowing scythe n. ΚΠ 1577 Edinb. Test. VI. f. 64^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mawin(g Ane new mawing syth price thairof [13s. 4d.]. 1630 Dumfries Test. A. 250 Twa maing sythes worth xxx s. the peice. 1779 in New Jersey Archives 2nd Ser. III. 478 For sale,..a few dozen of mowing scythes. a1918 G. Stuart 40 Years on Frontier (1925) I. 184 Last Sunday Granville lent Dempsey's employees a mowing scythe. 1983 Midwestern Jrnl. Lang. & Folklore 9 48 Mowing scythe. C2. mowing field n. a field of mowing grass, a hayfield. ΚΠ 1788 Connecticut Gaz. 25 July 2/2 A stranger with a sympathizing heart, would drop a tear..to see..large mowing fields the grass destroyed, cut to pieces, and washed against the walls and fences. 1819 E. Evans Pedestrious Tour 145 How many of our mowing fields are..shamefully poached and grubbed by horses and sheep! 1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere xxx. 224 The corn-crake..crept through the long grass of the mowing-field. 1965 E. Richardson Living Island 31 A few barn swallows built in the trees bordering the mowing-field. 1985 William & Mary Q. 42 98 The average White Indian owned..a bit over twelve improved acres (tilled land, pastures, and mowing fields). mowing grass n. grass that is allowed to grow long, being reserved for mowing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > standing crop > grass for mowing mowing grass1652 1652 Mercurius Democritus No. 13. 102 A Yeoman of that Town finding a great flock of Geese in his mowing-grasse, put on his staff, and drove them to the Pownd. 1726 G. Odingsells Capricious Lovers iii. viii. 33 She leaps like a Cat in mowing Grass—and stamps like an old Ram when he faces his Enemy. 1774 Ann. Reg. 1773 112 A horse had got into his mowing-grass. 1884 R. Jefferies Life of Fields 50 Only a few [bees] go down to the mowing grass. 1955 Times 13 May 12/6 Hathersage and Castleton and Edale had become over-run..by the less-desirable types, the litter-louts, the sheep-chasers, the fence-breakers, the mowing-grass destroyers, [etc.]. mowing ground n. originally and chiefly U.S. land on which grass is grown for mowing; a plot of such land. ΚΠ 1634 Cambr. Prop. Rec. 1 [The constable] shall make a surveyinge of the Houses backsids Corne ffeilds Moweing grounds and other lands. 1722 in Essex Inst. Historical Coll. (1906) XLII. 90 [To pay damages for] digging in any Corne field,..mowing ground. 1787 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 222 The same difference was equally obvious on a piece of mowing grd. not far distant from it. 1800 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. VII. 245 [The Isles of Shoals] lie in common, except a few small inclosures for gardens and mowing ground. 1998 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 23 Jan. 48 The farm has 190ha (470 acres) of in-bye and mowing ground. mowing land n. U.S. = mowing ground n. (cf. mow-land n. at mow v.¹ Compounds). ΚΠ 1640 in Connecticut Hist. Soc. Coll. (1912) XIV. 357 One parsell called Swamp, now mowing land. 1704 in K. A. Pritchard Waterbury (Connecticut) Proprietors' Rec. (1911) 60 No man shal stak horses in the moing land in said feild. 1858 C. L. Flint Milch Cows 169 The grasses differ widely; and their value as feed for cows will depend..on the management of pastures and mowing-lands. 1994 William & Mary Q. 51 63 Farmers had to create more pasture and mowing lands. mowing lot n. U.S. = mow-lot n. at mow v.¹ Compounds. ΚΠ 1763 Pennsylvania Gaz. 3 Mar. 3/2 (advt.) A large upland Mowing Lot has commonly been rented with the Stores. 1840 S. S. Arnold in Proc. Vermont Hist. Soc. (1940) 8 147 3 cows of Mr. Stoddards began to go in my mowing lot. 1899 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 180/1 A considerable farm, with all the accompaniments of garden lot, mowing lot, large barn, corn barn, horse stable, cow stable, and dog kennel. 1965–70 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 702/1 A piece of land with a hay crop planted on it... Mowing lot. mowing machine n. a machine for cutting grass, etc.; a mechanical mower. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > mowing machine mowing machine1822 mower1851 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 8 June 3/1 A new Mowing Machine, invented by J. Bailey, of Chester county, which with the aid of one man and a horse, mows eight acres of grass per day,..was tried. 1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story viii The mowing machine would be used in the timothy fields. 1931 E. F. Benson Mapp & Lucia iv. 102 I can hear the click of the mowing-machine on the lawn. 1987 S. Calligan Points to Prove 29 A mowing machine coming within the definition of a motor bicycle is exempt. † mowing-machine bird n. Obsolete rare the grasshopper warbler, Locustella naevia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Locustella (grasshopper-warbler) grasshopper lark1766 grasshopper warbler1790 Savi's warbler1843 reel-bird1856 reeler1866 Pallas's warbler1881 mowing-machine bird1887 1887 A. C. Smith Birds Wilts. 154 [The Grasshopper Warbler] is..known as the ‘mowing-machine bird’, in allusion to its remarkable note. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † mowingn.⁴ Forms: see mow v.⁴ and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.⁴, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < mow v.⁴ + -ing suffix¹. Obsolete. The lowing or mooing of cattle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > sound made by > making sound lowingOE routinga1425 bellowing1552 mowing1553 mooing1844 1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 17^v/1 The mowinge or lowynge of beastes, mugitus. 1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya ii. 10 Making great noise, with cries like the mowing of Bulles. 1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Eclogs vi. 18 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks King Pretus daughter fild the fields with mowings like to kine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018). † mowingn.⁵ Forms: 1500s mowghing. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < mow v.² + -ing suffix¹. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (mɑu·iŋ) /ˈmaʊɪŋ/. Obsolete. rare. The action of stacking hay, corn, etc., in mows. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking stacking1531 mowing1572 ricking1688 thack and rape1787 tippling1803 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Mowghing or heaping, aceruatio. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). mowingadj. Brit. /ˈmaʊɪŋ/, /ˈməʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmaʊɪŋ/, /ˈmoʊɪŋ/ Forms: 1500s mowyng, 1500s mowynge, 1800s– mowing. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mow v.³, -ing suffix². Etymology: < mow v.³ + -ing suffix². Now rare. Grimacing; (in extended use) mocking, derisive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [adjective] gamelyOE hathfula1250 scornfula1400 hathlya1425 mockisha1513 mockinga1529 mowinga1529 deriding1530 hethingfulc1540 bourding1552 make-sport1582 frumping1587 yarking1593 jerking1596 bobbing1605 derident1609 buffoonizing1611 scoptical?1611 scommatizing1613 derisory1618 ridiculous1622 ludibriousa1643 frumpish1647 twitting1655 derisivea1662 derisorious1664 scoptic1670 ridiculing1684 derisionarya1704 mockful1754 irrisory1846 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [adjective] > distorted writhen?a1425 girning1447 mowinga1529 writhed1568 mumping1594 antic1595 frowned1598 screwed1609 sour1611 wreathed1645 fluish1674 working1717 screwed-up1728 frownful1771 grimacing1804 quirked1931 a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiiii ^v To mockynge to mowynge to lyke a Iackenapes. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 358/1 And then should stande vp and preache vppon a stoole and make a mowyng sermon. 1858 S. Wilberforce Let. in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1881) II. xi. 394 To get rid of the nauseous Romanizing peculiarities of these mowing apes. 1909 J. London in Pacific Monthly Dec. 570/1 One of the mowing, ape-like travesties emitted a wild shriek of madness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1382n.²?a1425n.³a1425n.⁴1553n.⁵1572adj.a1529
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