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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A female pig.
- A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
- A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
- (derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
- A sowbug.
- (military) 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.
Verb
- (transitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
- (figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.
- (figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
Exempel
- 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.
- When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
- As you sow, so shall you reap.
- And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
- The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, [...] and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
- [He] sowed with stars the heaven.
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