Soe vs. Sow

Soenoun

(obsolete) a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people.

Sownoun

A female pig.

Soenoun

A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl.

Sownoun

A female bear.

Sownoun

A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.

Sownoun

A mass of metal solidified in a mold.

Sownoun

A contemptible, often fat woman.

Sownoun

A sowbug.

Sownoun

(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.

Sowverb

(ambitransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).

‘When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.’; ‘As you sow, so shall you reap.’;

Sowverb

(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.

Sowverb

(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.

Sowverb

To sew. See Sew.

Sowverb

To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.

‘A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside.’; ‘And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.’;

Sowverb

To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.

‘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.’; ‘Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.’;

Sowverb

To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; - literally or figuratively.

‘They that sow in tears shall reap in joi.’;

Sownoun

The female of swine, or of the hog kind.

Sownoun

A sow bug.

Sownoun

A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.

Sownoun

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.

Sownoun

an adult female hog

Sowverb

place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;

‘She sowed sunflower seeds’;

Sowverb

introduce into an environment;

‘sow suspicion or beliefs’;

Sowverb

place seeds in or on (the ground);

‘sow the ground with sunflower seeds’;