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HAYMOW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does haymow mean?
• HAYMOW (noun)
The noun HAYMOW has 2 senses:
1. a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation
2. a loft in a barn where hay is stored
Familiarity information: HAYMOW used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("haymow" is a kind of...):
batch; deal; flock; good deal; great deal; hatful; heap; lot; mass; mess; mickle; mint; mountain; muckle; passel; peck; pile; plenty; pot; quite a little; raft; sight; slew; spate; stack; tidy sum; wad ((often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent)
Meronyms (substance of "haymow"):
hay (grass mowed and cured for use as fodder)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A loft in a barn where hay is stored
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("haymow" is a kind of...):
attic; garret; loft (floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage)
Holonyms ("haymow" is a part of...):
barn (an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals)
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