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Sow sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary

Sow sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2025. Sow sb.2 Now dial. Also sowe (9 dial. sou, saa). [app. distinct from SOUGH sb.2, and perh. identical with Flem. dial. zou († souwe, soeuwe in Plantin and Kilian), drain.] A drain; a channel or run of water.

1 1316.  in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (1911), 88. Predicti Adam et socii sui gutturam, que dicitur ‘le sowe,’… reparabunt.

2 1669.  W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 359. A kind of Ocre … falls to the bottom of the Chanels of all, or most Mineral Springs, whether sowes or others. Ibid. (1670), Hydrol. Ess., 133. All Spaws, whether Vitrioline from Sowes, or aluminous.

3 1709.  Thoresby, Diary (1830), II. 50. Both days entirely spent with labourers, directing and overseering the sows to drain water.

4 c. 1800.  Stagg, Bridewain, ix. Misc. Poems (1808), 5. Owr hill an’ knowe, thro’ seugh an’ sowe, Comes tiftan many o’ couple.

5 1824–.  in Yorkshire and Cumberld. glossaries.

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