• Dutch: maaien
• Esperanto: tondi
• Finnish: niittää, leikata ruohoa
• French: couper l'herbe, faucher
• German: mähen
• Icelandic: slá, slá gras
• Indonesian: memotong rumput
• Irish: bain
• Italian: falciare, tagliare l'erba
• Japanese: 刈る (かる, karu)
• Korean: 베다 (beda), 깍다 (kkagda, kkakda)
• Polish: kosić imperf, skosić perf, żąć imperf, zżąć perf
• Portuguese: cortar relva (pt) / grama (br)
• Spanish: cortar la hierba
• Swedish: meja

Verb

1. farming jargon To put into mows.

Translations

Etymology 3

From etyl frm mouwe, moe. Compare moue.

Noun

1. In the context of "obsolete|_|except|_|dialectal": A scornful grimace.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 212:

     Those that paint them dying [...] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.

Mowing refers to cutting crops or plants that grow on the ground. See:

• Industrial mower
• Lawn mower
• Grasscycling

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