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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English m?wan (past tense m?ow, past participle m?wen), from Proto-Germanic *m?an? (compare Dutch maaien, German mähen, Danish meje, Swedish meja), from Proto-Indo-European *h?meh?- (“to mow, reap”); compare Hittite [script needed] (?ameš?a, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin met? (“I harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ???? (amá?, “I mow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mo?/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past mowed, past participle mowed or mown)

1. (transitive) To cut down grass or crops.

2. (transitive) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
   • 1915, Captain Robert Palmer, Letters from Mesopotamia

     In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]

Derived terms

• mow down
• remow

Related terms

• aftermath, math
• mead, meadow

Translations

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. The act of mowing (a garden, grass etc.)

2. (cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
   • 1828, Sporting Magazine (volume 21? 71? page 10)

     I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit.

Etymology 2

Middle English mowe, from Middle French moue (“lip, pout”), from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”), from Proto-Germanic *maww? (“muff, sleeve”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Cognate to moue (“pout”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mo?/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. (now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face. [from 14th c.]
   • , 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.

Translations

Verb

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)

1. To make grimaces, mock.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

     For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;

   • 1848, Henry Walter (editor), William Tyndale (original author), Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures

     Nodding, becking, and mowing.

Translations

Etymology 3

Old English m?ga. Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

Translations

Verb

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)

1. (agriculture) To put into mows.

Translations

Etymology 4

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. Alternative form of mew (a seagull)

See also

• Mow in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• OMW, WMO

Middle English

Etymology 1

Feom Old English magan (“to use, to win, to be able to”).

Verb

mow

1. Alternative form of mowen (“to be able to”)

Etymology 2

Feom Old English m?wan (“to mow”).

Verb

mow

1. Alternative form of mowen (“to mow”)

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?v, IPA^(key): /?e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English shaven, schaven, from Old English s?afan (“to shave, scrape, shred, polish”), from Proto-Germanic *skaban? (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skab?- (“to cut, split, form, carve”). Cognate with West Frisian skave, Dutch schaven (“to shave, plane”), Low German schaven (“to scrape, scratch, shave”), German schaben (“to scrape, shave”), Danish skave, Norwegian Nynorsk skava, Swedish skava (“to scrape, chafe”), Icelandic skafa, Gothic ???????????????????????? (skaban, “to shear, shave”).

Verb

shave (third-person singular simple present shaves, present participle shaving, simple past shaved or (obsolete) shove, past participle shaved or shaven)

1. (transitive) To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
2. (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.
   • 1713, John Gay, The Rural Sports

     The labourer with the bending scythe is seen / Shaving the surface of the waving green.

3. (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.

4. (transitive) To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
5. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
6. To reduce in size or weight.
7. (archaic, transitive) To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
8. (US, slang, dated, transitive) To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English shave, from Old English sceafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabô.

Noun

shave (plural shaves)

1. An instance of shaving.

2. A thin slice; a shaving.

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3. (US, slang, dated) An exorbitant discount on a note.
4. (US, slang, dated) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular.

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5. A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a spokeshave.
6. (informal) A narrow miss or escape; a close shave.
   • 1919, Edward Frederic Benson, Across the Stream

     " […] I had an awful shave getting into the harbour," remarked Archie.

Derived terms

• close shave

Translations

Anagrams

• haves, sheva

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English sceafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabô.

Alternative forms

• schave, schafe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?v(?)/

Noun

shave (plural shaves)

1. A tool used for filing, shaving, or abrasion.

Descendants

• English: shave

References

• “sh?ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-02.

Etymology 2

Verb

shave

1. Alternative form of schaven