Word Meaning

sows definition and meaning

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

Crossword clues for sows

- A swine
- Boar’s mate
- Farm animal
- Female adult pig
- Female swine
- Piglets’ mother
- Plant (seed)
- Plant part of cassowary
- Scatter seed
- Scatter seed for pig
- Spread seed
- broods of piglets
- Female pigs
- Scatters seed