unmownadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈməʊn/, U.S. /ˌənˈmoʊn/ Not mown. Also in extended use.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [adjective] > reaping or mowing > reaped or mowed > not
unslainc1440
unmown1536
unreaped1552
unshorn1580
unbarbed1612
unmowed1615
unscytheda1818
unsickleda1822
1536 in W. C. Dickinson Court Bk. Barony of Carnwath (1937) 202 For the castin of his petis within the medowerd pertenand to tennandis of Carnwyth & spreding in his petis in thair unmawin medow.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 53 Ane onmauen medou.
1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. C.iiii Doune with thy hedlondes,..leaue neuer a dalop, vnmoune or had out.
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iii. 79 As a Meade in Iuly, which vnmowne Beares in an equall height each bent and stem.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongemaeyt, vnmowne, or Vnreapt.
1745 J. Grigg Young Chevalier 18 Such Grass..dies unmown, and is not worth gathering home.
1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 636 Let..beer undrawn, and beards unmown, display Your holy reverence for the Sabbath-day.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury xii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 299 Oxen..pastured in the flowering unmown meadows.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights iii, in Poems 49 Deep inlay Of breaded blosms unmown.
1976 W. Stegner Spectator Bird (1990) iii. ii. 107 It is a place that expresses her—ten acres or so of wood and pasture, a clearing of unmown grass.
2004 C. Bazalgette in M. Bonham Casino p. vii A car jouncing away down the rough driveway between the unmown lawns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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