sow

UK /saʊ/ US /saʊ/
noun 7verb 4name 2

Definitions

noun

1

A female pig.

2

A female bear, she-bear.

Lucky he wasn't a sow. They've usually just dropped a cub this time of year. A sow would have been cranky as hell.

3

A female guinea pig.

4

A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.

5

A mass of metal solidified in a mold.

In England, it was generally termed a 'sow', if the weight was above 10 cwts., if below, it was termed a 'pig' from which the present term 'pig iron' is derived.

verb

1

To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).

When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.

2

To spread abroad; to propagate. (usu. negative connotation)

As you sow, so shall you reap.

Euen as I haue seene, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickednsse, reape the same.

3

To scatter over; to besprinkle.

The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, […] and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.

[He] sowd with Starrs the heav'n.

4

Obsolete spelling of sew.

name

1

A surname.

2

A river in Staffordshire, England, which joins the River Trent.

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