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sower

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sow 1  (s)
v. sowed, sown (sn) or sowed, sow·ing, sows
v.tr.
1. To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.
2. To spread (land, for example) with seed.
3. To strew something around or over (an area); distribute something over.
4. To propagate; disseminate: sow rumors.
v.intr.
To scatter seed for growing.
Idiom:
sow (one's) oats/wild oats
To indulge in dissolute or licentious behavior, especially to be sexually promiscuous, when young. Usually used of men.

[Middle English sowen, from Old English swan; see s- in Indo-European roots.]

sower n.

sow 2  (sou)
n.
1.
a. An adult female hog.
b. The adult female of several other animals, such as the bear.
2.
a. A channel that conducts molten iron to the molds in a pig bed.
b. The mass of metal solidified in such a channel or mold.

[Middle English, from Old English sugu and Old English s; see s- in Indo-European roots.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.sower - someone who sows
farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster - a person who operates a farm
Translations
sower [ˈsəʊəʳ] Nsembrador(a) m/f
sower
n (= person)Säer(in) m(f), → Sämann m; (= machine)Sämaschine f; a sower of doubtein Mensch, der Zweifel verbreitet
sower [ˈsəʊəʳ] n (person) → seminatore/trice; (machine) → seminatrice f
sower [ˈsəʊəʳ] n (person) → seminatore/trice; (machine) → seminatrice f


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After this Zarathustra returned again into the mountains to the solitude of his cave, and withdrew himself from men, waiting like a sower who hath scattered his seed.
Hump, do you know the parable of the sower who went forth to sow?
I will explain to you the statue of Saint Christopher, the symbol of the sower, and that of the two angels which are on the front of the Sainte-Chapelle, and one of which holds in his hands a vase, the other, a cloud--"
 
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