mowing
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English mowynge; equivalent to mow + -ing.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mowing
- present participle and gerund of mow
Noun edit
mowing (countable and uncountable, plural mowings)
- The activity by which something is mown.
- 2008 April 20, Jay Romano, “Got a Mess of Geese? Some Solutions”, in New York Times[1]:
- One gallon costs about $220, covers an acre and lasts through about two mowings.
- Land from which grass is cut.
- (in the plural) The grass clippings resulting from mowing.
- 1876, Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen:
- You may advantageously use the mowings of the lawn as linings to the bed each time the lawn is mown.