Reference: Mowing
Easton
(Heb gez), rendered in Ps 72:6 "mown grass." The expression "king's mowings" (Am 7:1) refers to some royal right of early pasturage, the first crop of grass for the cavalry (comp. 1Ki 18:5).
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Fausets
In Scripture means "reaping with a sickle", for the heat dries up the grass before it is high enough for the scythe (Ps 129:7). In Am 7:1 "the king's mowings" were the firstfruits of the pastures, tyrannically exacted. "The latter growth" was "the after grass" in the time of the latter rain.
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Smith
Mowing.
As the great heat of the climate in Palestine and other similarly situated countries soon dries up the herbage itself, hay-making in our sense of the term is not in use. The "king's mowings,"
may perhaps refer to some royal right of early pasturage for the use of the cavalry.