"lawnmow" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: lawnmows [present, singular, third-person], lawnmowing [participle, present], lawnmowed [past], lawnmowed [participle, past], lawnmown [participle, past]
Etymology: Back-formation from lawnmower or lawnmowing. Head templates: {{en-verb|past_ptc2=lawnmown}} lawnmow (third-person singular simple present lawnmows, present participle lawnmowing, simple past lawnmowed, past participle lawnmowed or lawnmown)
  1. (rare, intransitive) To mow a lawn. Tags: intransitive, rare
    Sense id: en-lawnmow-en-verb-z-tvlDIH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40
  2. (rare, transitive) To cut with a lawnmower. Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-lawnmow-en-verb-uVnDBAhB

Inflected forms

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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "form": "lawnmown",
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        {
          "ref": "1940-56, Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956, published 2017",
          "text": "All last week I lawnmowed, pianoed, tennised, read a little of “What Makes The Wheels Go Round”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To mow a lawn."
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        "(rare, intransitive) To mow a lawn."
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1910, “The Rathbunville Union Cemetery Assocation vs. George W. Betwon”, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division-Fourth Judicial Department",
          "text": "It has been kept lawnmowed ever since.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1945, Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, volume 37, page 263",
          "text": "In two experiments in which the forage was lawnmowed, and in two others mowed three or four times per year",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Eric Sansoni, “Star Wars from MATTEL?!?!?!”, in rec.toys.action-figures, retrieved 2018-09-05",
          "text": "This is the kind of logic used in this industry that makes me want to lawnmow various executives' pet cats.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Debra Adelaide, The Household Guide to Dying",
          "text": "He was slowly lawnmowing his way into something we had begun to call a business",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, J.L. Hammer, Nothing but Trouble",
          "text": "Something had hacked, chewed, or lawn-mowed what was left of the television cord.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To cut with a lawnmower."
      ],
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          "lawnmower",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, transitive) To cut with a lawnmower."
      ],
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        "rare",
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    }
  ],
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}
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          "text": "All last week I lawnmowed, pianoed, tennised, read a little of “What Makes The Wheels Go Round”",
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        }
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        "To mow a lawn."
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          "text": "It has been kept lawnmowed ever since.",
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        {
          "ref": "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",
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        },
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          "ref": "1945, Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, volume 37, page 263",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Eric Sansoni, “Star Wars from MATTEL?!?!?!”, in rec.toys.action-figures, retrieved 2018-09-05",
          "text": "This is the kind of logic used in this industry that makes me want to lawnmow various executives' pet cats.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Debra Adelaide, The Household Guide to Dying",
          "text": "He was slowly lawnmowing his way into something we had begun to call a business",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, J.L. Hammer, Nothing but Trouble",
          "text": "Something had hacked, chewed, or lawn-mowed what was left of the television cord.",
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        "(rare, transitive) To cut with a lawnmower."
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