Gez גֵּז

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Gez (Hebrew גֵּז, Strong's H1488) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “fleece”. It occurs 4 times in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) a shearing, mowing
1a) shearing, that sheared off
1b) a mowing, mown grass

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	fleece (2), mown (1), mowings (1)
BSB	wool sheared (1), fleece (1), freshly cut grass (1), harvest (1)

Every verse with Gez, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy 18:4
The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.

Job 31:20
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

Psalm 72:6
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

Amos 7:1
Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).