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mown

WordNet
  1. (adj) mown
    (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine "the smell of newly mown hay"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Mown
    Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) mown
    A past participle of mow.
  2. mown
    Same as moun.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adjs) Mown
    cut down with a scythe: cleared of grass with a scythe, as land
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. máwan; Ger. mähen; L. metĕre, to reap.

Usage in the news

I needed to remove a few limbs scattered on the freshly mown lawn. andalusiastarnews.com

In our modern times, unless your last name is Trump, Kaiser (Bandon Dunes) or Kohler (Whistling Straits), chances are good that a new course with killer views will, eventually, sprout homes alongside its tightly mown fairways. golftipsmag.com

A perfect place for a party: 10,000 acres of Washington State prairie , furnished with a newly mown field gilded by the sun, a big blue sky, fresh air, and close friends and family. countryliving.com

State Highway Crews Begin Fall Mowning. ktg.com

Usage in literature

Hundreds of the brave Turkish troops were mown down by the machine guns which the Australians had by this time brought ashore. "The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII)" by Various

A half company then attacking 'Bald Hill' was immediately mown down by the German machine guns. "The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8)"

They crossed the fields, some of which were new mown and fragrant. "Rodney, the Ranger" by John V. Lane

Taking the telescope, she turned it upon the scene, beholding the prostrate forms dotting the newly mown fields. "Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times" by Charles Carleton Coffin

Yes, and his timothy and clover have their literary uses, and his new-mown hay may perfume a line in poetry. "Under the Maples" by John Burroughs

Thomas has mown down the dock-leaves and rank grass, and cleared all away. "Shirley" by Charlotte Brontë

Exultant attackers would rush forward in advance of the programmed speed and be mown by their own barrage. "Cavalry of the Clouds" by Alan Bott

Call up olfactory images of: the odor of coffee, of new-mown hay, of tar, of cheese. "Psychology" by Robert S. Woodworth

So merrily they spend their summer-day, Now in the cornfields, now in the new-mown hay. "Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)" by John Wilson

The vetch should be mown in the meadows. "Sónnica" by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Usage in poetry
"It's torture!" - "Bear it!"
"A mown meadow -
My throat!" "Then wheeze:
That's a sound, too!"
When the grass was closely mown,
Walking on the lawn alone,
In the turf a hole I found
And hid a soldier underground.
In the Spring-time seed is sown:
In the Summer grass is mown:
In the Autumn you may reap:
Winter is the time for sleep.
Among his books he sits all day
To think and read and write;
He does not smell the new-mown hay,
The roses red and white.
And mother dear, take a sapling twig
And green grass newly mown,
And lay them on my empty bed
That my sorrow be not known.
That I half think the things I see
Are but a dream, and I shall be
Lying beside you, when I wake,
Upon the lawn beneath the brake,
With the hazel copse behind my head,
And the new-mown fields before me spread.