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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 preservationplay

2. a loft in a barn where hay is storedplay

  Familiarity information: HAYMOW used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HAYMOW (noun)


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:

hayloft; haymow; mow

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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