sow
Pronunciation: /saʊ/
The English word “sow” has 10 meanings listed here.
noun
- A female pig.
- A female bear; she-bear.
- A female guinea pig.
- A contemptible, often fat woman.
- A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
- A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
- 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
Etymology
From Middle English sowe, from Old English sugu, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu, from Proto-Germanic *sugō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *su(H)kéh₂, from *suH- (“pig”). See also West Frisian sûch, Dutch zeug, Low German Söög, German Sau, Swedish sugga, Norwegian sugge; also Welsh hwch (“pig”), Sanskrit सूकर (sūkará, “swine, boar”); also Danish so, German Sau, Latin sūs, Tocharian B suwo,…
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