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mowburn

mowburn verb: to stack (hay) before it is sufficiently dry, leading to excessive fermentation and sometimes toxicity.

Verb

mowburn (third-person singular simple present mowburns, present participle mowburning, simple past and past participle mowburned or mowburnt)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To stack (hay) before it is sufficiently dry, leading to excessive fermentation and sometimes toxicity.

Noun

mowburn (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Damage caused to hay in this manner.

Forms of mowburn

third-person singular presentmowburns
present participlemowburning
past participlemowburned
pastmowburned
past participlemowburnt
pastmowburnt

Origin of mowburn

From mow + burn.

Questions about mowburn

What does mowburn mean?
Mowburn means to stack (hay) before it is sufficiently dry, leading to excessive fermentation and sometimes toxicity.
What part of speech is mowburn?
Mowburn can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of mowburn?
The past tense of mowburn is mowburned.

Words near mowburn in the dictionary

  1. Mowatt
  2. Mowatts
  3. Mowbray
  4. Mowbray Park
  5. Mowbrays
  6. mowburn
  7. mowburned
  8. mowburning
  9. mowburns
  10. mowburnt
  11. Mowdy

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