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mowburnt

mowburnt adjective: of hay: stacked before it is sufficiently dry, leading to excessive fermentation and sometimes toxicity.

Adjective

mowburnt (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Of hay: stacked before it is sufficiently dry, leading to excessive fermentation and sometimes toxicity.
    • This is necessary for the developement of the saccharine principle; but occasionally it proceeds too far and the hay becomes mowburnt, in which state it is injurious, or even poisonous.1865, William Youatt, Youatt on the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse, page 399

Origin of mowburnt

From mow + burnt.

Questions about mowburnt

What does mowburnt mean?
Mowburnt means of hay: stacked before it is sufficiently dry, leading to excessive fermentation and sometimes toxicity.
What part of speech is mowburnt?
Mowburnt is an adjective.

Words near mowburnt in the dictionary

  1. Mowbrays
  2. mowburn
  3. mowburned
  4. mowburning
  5. mowburns
  6. mowburnt
  7. Mowdy
  8. Mowdys
  9. mowed
  10. mowed down
  11. Mowell

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