mowburnt
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mowburnt (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Of hay: stacked before it is sufficiently dry, leading to excessive fermentation and sometimes toxicity.
- 1865, William Youatt, Youatt on the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse, page 399:
- This is necessary for the developement of the saccharine principle; but occasionally it proceeds too far and the hay becomes mowburnt, in which state it is injurious, or even poisonous.