verb
definition
To cut down grass or crops.
example
He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.
definition
To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
Examples of mown in a Sentence
During the growing season established lawns should be mown at least once a week.
Lawns should be mown, and the edgings trimmed.
Keep the lawns closely mown.
The grass had been mown short for about five feet on either side of the narrow drive, and a tangle of underbrush and trees lay beyond... freedom, or a barrier?
Brush grew close to the drive, but it was obvious that someone had mown a swath down either side of the drive not long ago.
Meadows were pastured rather than mown.
Just by trimming the edges a lawn can appear to be newly mown.
Proceed with the laying down of lawns and gravel-walks, and keep the former regularly mown.
Hay is never mown on the true alps save in spots which are not easily accessible to cattle (in very high spots it belongs to the mower, and is then called Wildheu), but hay-crops are made on the Mayens or Voralpen, the lowest pastures, situated between the homesteads and the true alps; these Voralpen are individual (not communal) property, though probably in olden days cut out of the true Alpen.
In the winter the cattle consume the hay mown on these Voralpen (which, to a certain extent, are grazed in late spring and early autumn, that is, before and after the summer sojourn on the alps), either living in the huts on the Voralpen while they consume it, or in the stable attached to the dwelling-houses in the village; in the barn is stored the hay mown on the homestead and on the meadows near the village, which may belong to the owner of the cattle.
Giddon kept the lawn mown short to discourage snakes, but the rich green carpet wasn't nearly as enticing as the tangle of brush that threatened to invade the area around the house.
For two years the land is down to a grass clover sward which is occasionally mown.
What you smell as a rose, I may smell as mown hay.
A flock of about a dozen jackdaws foraged around the green mown grass of the Holmbush roundabout, northeast Shoreham.
Do people want to turn everything into mown grassland and concrete with a few marigolds?
A rough measurement of the speed of the freshly mown lawns was 9.9 seconds on the Plummer scale.
To allow them to be neatly mown obstructions should not be placed on the grass area.
Unfortunately, the land within Johnson's Field itself has been recently, regularly mown resulting in much of the interest there being lost.
Just beyond the garden is a fenced paddock where the owner has thoughtfully mown a large area of grass for football or cricket.
The graveyard had been freshly mown when I visited, the dry grass stubble looking like a blasted heath around the church.
Tests are carried out in a number of areas including close mown fine turf.
This process can be hastened by additions of mown heather seed capsules, application of topsoil or by laying heathland turves.
Areas of woodland, mostly newly planted, broadleaf, mixed, interspersed with " wildflower meadows " which are mown.
Through the open window there came the roar of a mown meadow and it suddenly became very gloomy in the room.