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lawnmow

lawnmow verb: to mow a lawn.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, rare) To 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. (rare, transitive) To 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
    • Beginning on June 10, the entire field was mowed eight times in 1937, but the lawnmowed clippings were removed and weighed on only two dates1937, 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

Examples of lawnmow in a sentence

  • In two experiments in which the forage was lawnmowed, and in two others mowed three or four times per year1945, 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 business2009, Debra Adelaide, The Household Guide to Dying:

Forms of lawnmow

third-person singular presentlawnmows
present participlelawnmowing
pastlawnmowed
past participlelawnmowed
past participlelawnmown

Origin of lawnmow

Back-formation from lawnmower or lawnmowing.

Questions about lawnmow

What does lawnmow mean?
Lawnmow means to mow a lawn.
How do you use lawnmow in a sentence?
In two experiments in which the forage was lawnmowed, and in two others mowed three or four times per year
What part of speech is lawnmow?
Lawnmow is a verb.
What is the past tense of lawnmow?
The past tense of lawnmow is lawnmowed.

Words near lawnmow in the dictionary

  1. lawnless
  2. lawnlessness
  3. lawnlet
  4. lawnlets
  5. lawnlike
  6. lawnmow
  7. lawnmowed
  8. lawnmower
  9. lawnmowers
  10. lawnmowing
  11. lawnmown

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