lawny

Variant of lawn

lawn definition

lawn (lôn)

noun

  1. land covered with grass kept closely mowed, esp. in front of or around a house
  2. the grass itself to mow the lawn
  3. Archaic an open space in a forest; glade

Etymology: ME launde < OFr, heath < Bret lann, heath, country: see land

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