lawnmow

L1A1W4N1M3O1W4

verb

To mow a lawn.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verblawnmow (third-person singular simple present lawnmows, present participle lawnmowing, simple past lawnmowed, past participle lawnmowed or lawnmown)

present singular third person lawnmows · participle present lawnmowing · past lawnmowed · participle past lawnmowed · participle past lawnmown

  1. intransitiverareTo mow a lawn.

    All last week I lawnmowed, pianoed, tennised, read a little of “What Makes The Wheels Go Round”

    1940-56, Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956, published 2017
  2. raretransitiveTo cut with a lawnmower.

    It has been kept lawnmowed ever since.

    1910, “The Rathbunville Union Cemetery Assocation vs. George W. Betwon”, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division-Fourth Judicial Department
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    Beginning on June 10, the entire field was mowed eight times in 1937, but the lawnmowed clippings were removed and weighed on only two dates

    1937, Connecticut. Board of Finance and Control, “Parts 1-2”, in The Budget Report of the State Board of Finance and Control to the General Assembly, Session of 1929-1937, volume 4, published 1942

    In two experiments in which the forage was lawnmowed, and in two others mowed three or four times per year

    1945, Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, volume 37, page 263

    This is the kind of logic used in this industry that makes me want to lawnmow various executives' pet cats.

    1997, Eric Sansoni, “Star Wars from MATTEL?!?!?!”, in rec.toys.action-figures, retrieved 05 Sep 2018

    He was slowly lawnmowing his way into something we had begun to call a business

    2009, Debra Adelaide, The Household Guide to Dying

    Something had hacked, chewed, or lawn-mowed what was left of the television cord.

    2014, J.L. Hammer, Nothing but Trouble

Origin

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