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Sow
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
(2):
(v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
(3):
(v. i.) To sew. See Sew.
(4):
(v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; - literally or figuratively.
(5):
(v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
(6):
(n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
(7):
(n.) A sow bug.
(8):
(n.) 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, or the like.
(9):
(n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
(10):
(n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sow'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/sow.html. 1828.
