Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
MOW
hayloft, haymow, mow
(noun) a loft in a barn where hay is stored
pout, mop, mow
(verb) make a sad face and thrust out one’s lower lip; “mop and mow”; “The girl pouted”
mow, cut down
(verb) cut with a blade or mower; “mow the grass”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past mowed, past participle mown or mowed)
(transitive) To cut down grass or crops.
(transitive) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
Noun
mow (plural mows)
(cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
Etymology 2
Noun
mow (plural mows)
(now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face. [from 14th c.]
Verb
mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)
To make grimaces, mock.
Etymology 3
Noun
mow (plural mows)
(now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
Verb
mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)
(agriculture) To put into mows.
Etymology 4
Noun
mow (plural mows)
Alternative form of mew (a seagull)
Anagrams
• OMW, WMO
Noun
MOW
Initialism of meals on wheels.
Anagrams
• OMW, WMO
Source: Wiktionary
Mow, n. [Written also moe and mowe.] Etym: [F. moue pouting, a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.]
Definition: A wry face. "Make mows at him." Shak.
Mow, v. i.
Definition: To make mouths. Nodding, becking, and mowing. Tyndale.
Mow, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Same as Mew, a gull.
Mow, v. [pres. sing. Mow, pl. Mowe, Mowen, Moun.] Etym: [AS. magan. See May, v.]
Definition: May; can. "Thou mow now escapen." [Obs.] Chaucer. Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. Chaucer.
Mow, v. t. [imp. Mowed; p. p. Mowed or Mown (; p. pr. & vb. n. Mowing.] Etym: [OE. mowen, mawen, AS. mawan; akin to D. maaijen, G. mähen, OHG. majan, Dan. meie, L. metere to reap, mow, Gr. Math, Mead a meadow, Meadow.]
1. To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
2. To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.
3. To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.
Mow, v. i.
Definition: To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
Mow, n. Etym: [OE. mowe, AS. m.]
1. A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
Mow, v. t.
Definition: To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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