Moned vs Mowed - What's the difference?
moned | mowed |
(mone)
(obsolete) Communion; participation; companionship.
(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
(archaic) A companion.
To admonish; advise; explain.
(mow)
To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.
*, 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
To make grimaces, mock.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
* Tyndale
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.
As verbs the difference between moned and mowed
is that moned is (mone) while mowed is (mow).moned
English
Verb
(head)mone
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mone, imone, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) monien, from (etyl) monian, .Verb
(en-verb)Etymology 3
From (etyl) mone, alteration (affected by . More at (l).mowed
English
Verb
(head)mow
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) mowen (participle mowen), from (etyl) )Verb
- He mowed the lawn .
Derived terms
* mow downEtymology 2
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Make mows at him.
Verb
(en verb)- For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;
- Nodding, becking, and mowing .