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mew

3  [myoo]
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–noun
1. a cage for hawks, esp. while molting.
2. a pen in which poultry is fattened.
3. a place of retirement or concealment.
4. mews, (usually used with a singular verb) Chiefly British.
a. (formerly) an area of stables built around a small street.
b. a street having small apartments converted from such stables.
–verb (used with object)
5. Archaic. to shut up in or as in a mew; confine; conceal (often fol. by up).
Origin:
1325–75; ME mue < MF, akin to muer to molt. See mew 4
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mew  (n.2)
"cage," c.1300, from O.Fr. mue "cage for hawks, especially when molting," from muer "to molt," from L. mutare "to change" (see mutable).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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