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mow

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1643, OED Evaluation: Now chiefly regional.

A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And the steam engine was pulled by horses. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: And ah- and of course you'd then, you had to have somebody get into one mow, pitch the grain to the guy that put it in the separator they call it.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
... the men would come in all ah, dirt from the- and dust from the s-- ah, o-- oat sh-- (inc) the straw that would come from- i-- if they were in the straw mow, they would be filthy. Ah, and then there'd be somebody bagging the oats, I-guess or putting them into the granary or-something. Interviewer: Well, at least everybody would get together and have a big meal.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
Speaker: We let them out in the barnyard and cleaned the stables in the winter time and if it was a dirty day, we had to put them back in, like if it was icy or- Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: They're- y-- Interviewer: Hm. Speaker: Put the hay out of the mow and after we- square bails we did those in those days. Sometimes we had to buy some and- Interviewer: Can you explain to me what the mow is? Speaker: Well it's the upper part of the barn. You walk into the barn floor w-- and there's a- a mow on each side that you mile the hay. Before we had ma-- ah, bails, there was a hay fork rope, ah, a hay fork. We still have it up in the barn.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
... that's how they'd pack the hay in then. But when I was haying, it was the mow and the bails. Interviewer: And the mow is the upper part of the barn where they put the hay- Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: You said right? Speaker: Uh-huh. And one year we had it right, pretty well to the ceiling ...
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
It would go that way, or it'd go this way. And then when it got over the- it had a small rope on it, and when it got to where you wanted it in the mow, it'd eject a thing and down come ah, the hay, and then you went up and you mowed it all back by hand. And ah, I used to work a nineteen-thirty-three Chev truck.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
And away we'd go down to his barn and- and he'd pull it off with the- with the hay-fork. And I got the job of working in the mow and it was a little old peak-roofed barn, hotter than hell. And you'd just pretty near melt. But anyways.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
That's a- well the- in- the barns were- were built different. The one that we had at home was built in nineteen-thirty-six. It was hundred feet long and thirty-six feet wide. And there were two- there were two runways to it. One here and one here. That was the west mow there, there's a centre mow, and a east mow. And it was built ah, Teddy-Nichols built them out of three barns that was on the property originally. Built the new barn and they used all the timbers out of these old barns to build the new barn. It's still there. And he put new lumber on the front and the end. And the old lumber that was any good went on the west end where you couldn't see it. But the hay mow, or a grain mow like what we- when we were doing stuff and he used to bring ah, the- the grain in with sheaves. And there was slings.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
So w-- in the centre mow, we had the- we had the grain. And over here in the- in the east mow we had all the loose hay. And when it come to thrashing, the thrashing mill sat over here.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
... they pull it up with a sling and then i-- there's a track in there and it goes a long the track and it goes along the track and you can trip it with a rope and drop it wherever you want in the mow. Sometimes they used a hay fork for that, but quite often they used these slings.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
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Speaker: Oh it- yeah it was a dairy farm and he had saddle horses and ah he- ah I would- I was a guide taking people out on the trail and bringing them back through and I helped- we loaded the hay by hand. Brought in hay and put in the hay mow and I run the tractor and- and ah- Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: Yeah so I went down there for part of the summer just for ah farm experience, I guess.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
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Speaker 2: On the wagon. Speaker: It would lift you right peak of the barn. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: And then you'd go sideways and then you would trip it- Speaker 3: (inc) Speaker: It would drop down into the mow. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: So we used to periodically decide to go for the ride. We hang on to that, keep our head down, you go up and go and then drop down with it.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
Well, I know when- when that- when the thration (ration) was over, there always was- like, where the wagon would come into the barn, and th-- and a mow on each side, but- the- the barns were so full, that they had to- the- put the straw in there, in that space, and then the boys'd climb up and on- on the beams and-everything, and jump down into the straw. Which was kind of dangerous.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer 1: And then once you've got a wagon load what- what happens then? Speaker: Oh you bring it into the barn, put it in the mow. Interviewer 2: Again- Speaker: And that- Interviewer 1: So you got to get it up high- Speaker: Is a hot job. I know never did that. My dad or- sometimes we'd have a hired man for the summer months. Interviewer: Would they fork it up there? How do you get it- the hay up there?
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
Speaker: ... you put that into the ah, into the hay. And then, the horse outside would pull that up on the rope. And then, whoever was on the wagon, would shout just for the horse to stop- well somebody would be driving the horse. And then, it would drop down into the mow. Interviewer: So was the horse like on the treadmill or something? Speaker: Oh no, oh no, not on a treadmill. There were just hitched to whiffletree and somebody had to drive them and that would pull the rope up.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: What? The stairways still there from the bedrooms. Speaker 2: The- Ellertons house? Speaker: Yeah. Speaker 2: Well yeah, our grandfathers barn and- and the living room was- Speaker: The ba-- one mow. Speaker 2: One mow. The- the dry floor was the hall and the other- and the- and- Speaker: Other mow was the- Speaker 2: And the other mow was the kitchen. The main- the main dog house was the- Interviewer: What's the word mow mean? Speaker: Mow, mow. Interviewer: M-O-W. Speaker: Yeah, where you pour the hay. Goes in the mows- Interviewer: The hay mow. Oh, okay. So that word was used in Ellerton's house. Got it.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker 2: What? The stairways still there from the bedrooms. Speaker: The- Ellertons house? Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: Well yeah, our grandfathers barn and- and the living room was- Speaker 2: The ba-- one mow. Speaker: One mow. The- the dry floor was the hall and the other- and the- and- Speaker 2: Other mow was the- Speaker: And the other mow was the kitchen. The main- the main dog house was the- Interviewer: What's the word mow mean? Speaker 2: Mow, mow. Interviewer: M-O-W. Speaker 2: Yeah, where you pour the hay. Goes in the mows- Interviewer: The hay mow. Oh, okay. So that word was used in Ellerton's house. Got it.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
Speaker: Yeah when um- when Ellertons bought my grandfather's log barn and- and- ah, that was the one- the one mow became- became the living room and the other mow became the- the kitchen and- Interviewer: Oh I understand, okay. Speaker: So the big wide- big wide hallway.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Power back again. Four times and the load was off. So that's the way- and then the guy on the mow would be a hundred- there was one time my neighbour was- hired a couple of young guys. That's not that many, ah maybe might be twenty years ago now, and it was hotter than hell up there. And ah getting up in the mow was a steel roof, just to give you an idea of how hot it was up there. Now I never took a thermometer up.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer 1: So coming home you could have a whole wagon full. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: Old basket rack there that didn't hold very much but anyway, fork it on there, bring it home, fork it off! Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: Fork it off into the hay mow. Interviewer 2: That would be work. Speaker: Yeah, if you're throwing over the beam. There's a big beam up there, you got to throw it over the top of that usually and ah- but we did.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Horses, hooked them on and they'd pull out into the lane way and raise up the- Interviewer 1: (inc) Speaker: Hay thing. So and then- Interviewer 2: (inc) gate. Interviewer 1: (Laughs) Speaker: Gate and then my mom and dad was up in the mow and they would um, spread the hay around. Interviewer 2: It would swing into the mow. Speaker: And yeah, this would be a big heap so then they'd have to take the-
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.