lawnmow
English
Etymology
Back-formation from lawnmower or lawnmowing.
Verb
lawnmow (third-person singular simple present lawnmows, present participle lawnmowing, simple past lawnmowed, past participle lawnmowed or lawnmown)
- (rare, intransitive) To mow a lawn.
- 1940-56, Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956, published 2017:
- All last week I lawnmowed, pianoed, tennised, read a little of “What Makes The Wheels Go Round”
- (rare, transitive) To cut with a lawnmower.
- 1937, Connecticut. Board of Finance and Control, “Parts 1-2”, in The Budget Report of the State Board of Finance and Control to the General Assembly, Session of 1929-1937, volume 4, published 1942:
- Beginning on June 10, the entire field was mowed eight times in 1937, but the lawnmowed clippings were removed and weighed on only two dates
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