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Definition of Sow

Sow

  1. To sew. See Sew.
  2. The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
  3. A sow bug.
  4. A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
  5. The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
  6. A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
  7. 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.
  8. To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
  9. To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
  10. To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.

Sow Quotations

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
Bob Marley

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Khalil Gibran

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Francis of Assisi

If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.
Joel Osteen

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sow Translations

sow in Dutch is uitzaaien
sow in Italian is seminare
sow in Portuguese is porca
sow in Spanish is cerda

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