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thnidu ([identity profile] thnidu.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] browngirl 2008-02-29 03:35 am (UTC)

Ayuh. It isn't the same word as "mow" /mo:/ the lawn. OED saith:

mow, n.1:
Now chiefly regional.
Brit. /maʊ/, U.S. /maʊ/ [which means "rhymes with 'cow'"]

1. a. A stack of hay, corn, beans, peas, etc.; esp. a heap of grain or hay in a barn. Also: the quantity of grain or hay stacked in one bay of a barn. Cf. HAY-MOW n.
b. A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.

†2. More generally: a heap or pile of anything; a heap of earth, a mound, a hillock; (Sc.) a stack of peats. Obs. rare.

--Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody

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