sow

noun

1. A female animal
2. A female animal

   “Lucky he wasn't a sow. They've usually just dropped a cub this time of year. A sow would have been cranky as hell.”

3. A female animal
4. (derogatory, slang)A contemptible, often fat woman.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of sowbug.
6. A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
7. A mass of metal solidified in a mold.

   “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.”

8. 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.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of statement of work (“a document in project management, including deliverables and timelines”).
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of standoff weapon.

verb

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

   “When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.”

2. (ambitransitive, figuratively)To spread abroad; to propagate.

   “as you sow, so shall you reap”

   “Euen as I haue seene, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickednsse, reape the same.”

   “And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.”

   “Not surprisingly, it has sown doubt among other operators of diesel-hydraulics; […].”

3. (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] sowd with Starrs the heav'n.”

4. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of sew.

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)A river in Staffordshire, England, which joins the River Trent.