mow

1. noun, a place in a barn where hay or straw is stored (COD); 2. attributive; see also haymow; mow (verb)

1.
“Come haying time, and the fresh hay in the mow, the chickens would like to burrow into the mow, lay their eggs.”

“That was a hot job in the summertime, stacking those bales in the mow. It was all steel roof, and the sun would beat down on it, get hot as the blazes.”

“I got farmer’s lung, they call it — the doctors call it asthma — first year when I helped with the thrashing gang. I had to go in the mow … I was spitting dust for two weeks!”

“So here comes a load of hay, and so they put the wagon in the barn, in the big upper barn in between mows. Mows is just places where they put the hay.”

“We had to help put it up in the upper mow with a big hayfork that they pushed into the load, and then the horses would draw it up and then drop it in the mow.”

“Somebody had to be way up in the mow, and somebody had to be on the barn floor.”

“There’d be quite a few bales went in that mow, eh.”
“Yeah, I think 12,000 we put in the home barn there. And we had a lot of other barns around at that time too, eh.”

“I remember too, people talking about jumping out of the mow to pack. To pack the hay into the press.”

“The old-fashioned baler. Well that’s what it was, but I’d never seen it running, but it looked like it was set up right in the barn, and maybe you just forked the hay out of the mow into it. I never seen it go.”

“The poor horses, when I turned… It was alright going down because they had the weight behind them, and they pulled the hay up, went into the mow. Or up and then somebody was there, and they pulled the rope and spun it over across into the mow.”

“I remember that you didn’t like to touch a bale of hay with a snake in it.”
“What I had you do is, when I stepped in the cow stable or somewhere so I couldn’t see, you removed some of the bales in the mow and reset them, so I wouldn’t know which bale the thing was in.”

“Sometimes he used slings. He’d lay ropes and he’d put it on the horse fork rope, and she’d go up and over to the mow.”

“Yes I did drive the horses when the horse fork … when they forked the hay up to the mow.”

“My mother used to drive the tractor on the horse fork rope, like it went through pulleys to the back of the mow and then up to the front and then down to the wagon.”

2.
“Still got the mow conveyor up there.”