MOWER
What does "MOWER" mean?
A machine or person that cuts grass or grain.
Meanings
- A machine for cutting grass, especially a lawnmower. He pushed the mower in tidy stripes across the front lawn.
- A person who cuts grass or harvests grain, traditionally with a scythe. In the old painting, mowers swing their scythes through the wheat. archaic
Did you know?
- The lawnmower descends from the textile trade: in 1830 Edwin Budding adapted a machine that sheared the nap off cloth into the first cylinder mower, so the same idea trims your lawn and once finished fine wool.
Word origin
An agent noun from the verb 'mow', from Old English 'mawan', 'to cut grass'; the human sense is older, with the machine sense following the invention of the lawnmower in 1830.
Remember it
MOWER = 'mow' + 'er'; the one (or the thing) that mows. Picture it sounding like 'mow-er' as it growls across the yard.
A little poem
Saturday's engine-
the smell of cut green rising,
summer made into work.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the lawnmower get a promotion? It was a cut above the rest.
What it teaches
Some tools earn their living by taking things down a notch; level ground is its own kind of care.
Quick facts
What does MOWER mean?
A machine or person that cuts grass or grain.
Is MOWER a valid word?
Yes — MOWER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is MOWER?
MOWER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does MOWER come from?
An agent noun from the verb 'mow', from Old English 'mawan', 'to cut grass'; the human sense is older, with the machine sense following the invention of the lawnmower in 1830.
What can MOWER teach us?
Some tools earn their living by taking things down a notch; level ground is its own kind of care.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.