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A female animal; A female pig.
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A female animal; 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.
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A female animal; A female guinea pig.
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A contemptible, often fat woman.derogatoryslang
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Clipping of sowbug.abbreviationalt-ofclipping
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A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
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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.
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A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
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To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).ambitransitive
- When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
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To spread abroad; to propagate.ambitransitivefiguratively
- as you sow, so shall you reap
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To scatter over; to besprinkle.figuratively
- 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.
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Obsolete spelling of sew.alt-ofobsolete