Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A second crop, as of hay, in a season.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The lattermath, or second crop of hay cut off the same ground in one year.
- noun A stubble-field left unplowed till late autumn, and furnishing a certain amount of herbage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.
- noun Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S. The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A second crop of
hay .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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During the remaining months they are fed with grains, tares, and cabbages, and a proportion of rowen, or second-cut hay.
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Happy the author whose earliest works are read and understood by the lustre thrown back upon them from his latest! for then we receive the impression of continuity and cumulation of power, of peculiarity deepening to individuality, of promise more than justified in the keeping: unhappy, whose autumn shows only the aftermath and rowen of an earlier harvest, whose would-be replenishments are but thin dilutions of his fame!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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Every farmer knows the milk-producing properties of rowen, or second crop, which is generally cut before it ripens.
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Mare eie stondeð men of monne þanne hom do of c {ri} ste. þe wel ne doð þe hwile þe ho muȝen. wel oft hit schal rowen {;} þenne ȝe mawen sculen ⁊ repen þ̵ ho er sowen.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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In the meadows the peasants were piling their carts with heavy rowen, the girls lifting the hay on the forks, and the men giving themselves the lighter labor of ordering the load.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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The flower-woman at the gate of her garden had now only autumnal blooms for sale in the vases which flanked the entrance; the windrows of the rowen, left steeping in the dews overnight, exhaled a faint fragrance;
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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In the meadows the peasants were piling their carts with heavy rowen, the girls lifting the hay on the forks, and the men giving themselves the lighter labor of ordering the load.
Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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From the meadows the rowen, tossed in long loose windrows, sent into their car a sad autumnal fragrance which mingled with the tobacco smoke, when two fat smokers emerged into the narrow corridor outside their compartments and tried to pass each other.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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From the meadows the rowen, tossed in long loose windrows, sent into their car a sad autumnal fragrance which mingled with the tobacco smoke, when two fat smokers emerged into the narrow corridor outside their compartments and tried to pass each other.
Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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The flower-woman at the gate of her garden had now only autumnal blooms for sale in the vases which flanked the entrance; the windrows of the rowen, left steeping in the dews overnight, exhaled a faint fragrance; a poor remnant of the midsummer multitudes trailed itself along to the various cafes of the valley, its pink paper bags of bread rustling like sere foliage as it moved.
Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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