Definitions for sows

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sows sow

Spelling: [soh]

IPA: /soʊ/

Sows is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in sows (ossw).

Definitions for sows

noun

1. an adult female swine.
2. the adult female of various other animals, as the bear.
3. Metallurgy. a large oblong mass of iron that has solidified in the common channel through which the molten metal flows to the smaller channels in which the pigs solidify. the common channel itself. a basin holding any of certain molten nonferrous metals to be cast.

verb (used with object)

1. to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
2. to plant seed for:
3. to scatter seed over (land, earth, etc.) for the purpose of growth.
4. to implant, introduce, or promulgate; seek to propagate or extend; disseminate:
5. to strew or sprinkle with anything.

verb (used without object)

1. to sow seed, as for the production of a crop.

Origin of sows

before 900; Middle English sowen, Old English sāwan; cognate with Dutch zaaien, German säen, Old Norse sā, Gothic saian; akin to seed, Latin sēmen seed, serere to sow

Examples for sows

While other sows have four feet, this one, strangely enough, has eight.

After he has ploughed he breaks the clods, sows, reaps, and threshes.

He tills the ground, he sows the seed—and there he leaves it to God.

A horse and mare, a boar and two sows, and a goat with kid were likewise given to him.

June 17, eight sows with pig, for the poor of Highgate and Hampstead.

But surely there would not be wild boars and sows in an island like this?

On the contrary, if he sows the wind he will reap the whirlwind.

Silvestro sows his seed in two places and they all go off to Mass.

She had, however, only thirteen chests of eight and fourteen sows of silver.

For here the proverb holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.'