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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
I don't maybe the horses wasn't even around there then, I'm not sure but I can remember they saw me at the top of the- the ladder that goes up to the hay mow, 'cause it h-- go-- the hay had got quite a bit here. I was k-- peaking over at the top. I gone up there by myself up the ladder (laughs).
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
Speaker: He helped a lot when we were going together. He- when they did the threshing and-that, he would make the stooks. Now I'm jumping all around to different things I-guess. He would um, help up in the mow and-that- and they were- I was on the straw stack I-guess. Interviewer: Yeah, well your dad used to put the grain in the barn and then thresh it-
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: A hot humid days like we had here last week. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: (Non-lexical sound), I don't miss being in a hay mow. Interviewer: No (laughs). Speaker: (Laughs)
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
And in the woodshed there was another- it's just the way the beams caught the barn and there was another sort-of hiding spot in there. And when you went out of the hay mow at the barn, you could get onto the barn roof. And there was these tiny little lightning rods that stuck- that would probably not hold five feet of pressure but we used to t-- tangle ropes to the tops of the lightning rods ...
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
Interviewer: What kind of adventures were there when the farm kids come for the farm vacations? Do you remember that? Speaker: Oh, y-- yeah, we'd play up in the barn, we'd make different hay mows or back to the Beaver-Pond or climbing trees or playing hide-and-go-seek.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: In the barn? Speaker: Yes. And he said- well it hits your chest sort-of he said, but he come out of that and the cows got up after too. Amazing. And the s-- second time was up in the hay mow, then you drew the hay in a wagon and then you hitched a horse to the hay fork. You filled the fork with hay off the wagon.
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.