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Granary vs Mow - What's the difference?

granary | mow |

As a noun granary

is (agriculture) a storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.

As a verb mow is

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granary

English

(wikipedia granary)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (agriculture) A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
  • (figuratively) A fertile, grain-growing region.

    • Derived terms

    * granary bread

    See also

    * silo * grain elevator

    mow

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) mowen (participle mowen), from (etyl) )

    Verb

  • To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.
    • He mowed the lawn .
    Derived terms
    * mow down

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.212:
  • *:Those that paint them dyingdelineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Make mows at him.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make grimaces, mock.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
    • For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;
  • * Tyndale
    • Nodding, becking, and mowing .

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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

    (en verb)
  • (agriculture) To put into mows.

    • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (a seagull)
    • (Webster 1913)

    See also

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