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Soe vs. Sow — What's the Difference?

Soe vs. Sow — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Soe and Sow

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Soe

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

Sow

To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.

Soe

A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl.

Sow

To scatter seed over (land, for example).

Sow

To strew something around or over (an area); distribute something over
"The yard was sown with cement sculpture" (Ashley Warlick).
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Sow

To propagate; disseminate
Sow rumors.

Sow

To scatter seed for growing.

Sow

An adult female pig, especially one that has had at least one litter.

Sow

The adult female of several other animals, such as the bear.

Sow

A channel that conducts molten iron to the molds in a pig bed.

Sow

The mass of metal solidified in such a channel or mold.

Sow

A female pig.

Sow

A female bear, she-bear.

Sow

A female guinea pig.

Sow

A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.

Sow

A mass of metal solidified in a mold.

Sow

A contemptible, often fat woman.

Sow

A sowbug.

Sow

(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.

Sow

(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.

Sow

(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.

Sow

(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.

Sow

Obsolete spelling of sew

Sow

To sew. See Sew.

Sow

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.

Sow

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.

Sow

To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; - literally or figuratively.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joi.

Sow

The female of swine, or of the hog kind.

Sow

A sow bug.

Sow

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

Sow

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

An adult female hog

Sow

Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;
She sowed sunflower seeds

Sow

Introduce into an environment;
Sow suspicion or beliefs

Sow

Place seeds in or on (the ground);
Sow the ground with sunflower seeds

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