Sow: English to English |
Sow (n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed. |
Sow (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. |
Sow (n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander. |
Sow (n.) A sow bug. |
Sow (n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner. |
Sow (n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind. |
Sow (v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively. |
Sow (v. i.) To sew. See Sew. |
Sow (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. |
Sow (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. |