sow one's wild oats
To spread one's genes around by impregnating many females.
noun
A female pig.
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.
A female guinea pig.
A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
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
To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
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.
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.
Obsolete spelling of sew.
name
A surname.
A river in Staffordshire, England, which joins the River Trent.