mowthn.
/məʊθ/, U.S. /moʊθ/ Now historical.
The action of mowing; grass, corn, etc., that may be or has been mowed; the portion of a crop that has been mowed; = math n.1 a man's mowth: = day's math n.
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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
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1613 R. Loder Farm Accts. (1936) 61 Which was soe many dayes mowth by reason that much of hay was flundred with londe flude.
1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 175 Later-mow'th, the after-mowth, now call'd Math.
1781 R. Burn Eccl. Law (rev. ed.) 429 The after-mowth or after-eatage.
1817 V. Thomas Papers (Bodl. Top. Oxon b. 19) lf. 174 A man's Mowth is reckoned at a Statute Acre.
1912 Econ. Jrnl. 22 61 The strips..are over two acres in size. That would be more than a man's mowth, even in such easy mowing as these meadows bear.
1943 H. J. Massingham Men of Earth iii. 31 A man's mowth was reckoned at a scratch acre.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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