mower

mow¹ (məʊ)

—vb , mows, mowing, mowed, mowed, mown
1.	to cut down (grass, crops, etc) with a hand implement or machine
2.	(tr) to cut the growing vegetation of (a field, lawn, etc)

[Old English māwan; related to Old High German māen, Middle Dutch maeyen to mow, Latin metere to reap, Welsh medi]

'mower¹

—n

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mower

mid-15c., agent noun from mow (v.). Mechanical sense is from 1852.

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"Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon- day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach'd, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and tho' you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he guggles down like mother's milk."

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