sower

English
Sowers

Etymology 1

From Middle English sowere, from Old English sāwere; equivalent to sow +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsəʊə(ɹ)/

Noun

sower (plural sowers)

  1. One who or that which sows.
Translations

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsaʊə(ɹ)/

Adjective

sower (comparative sowerer, superlative sowerest)

  1. Obsolete form of sour.
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i], page 14:
      Pro. Then, as my gueſt, and thine owne acquiſition / Worthily purchas'd, take my daughter : But / If thou do'ſt breake her Virgin-knot, before / All ſanctimonious ceremonies may / With full and holy right, be miniſtred, / No ſweet aſperſion ſhall the heauens let fall / To make this contract grow; but barraine hate, / Sower-ey'd diſdaine, and diſcord ſhall beſtrew / The vnion of your bed, with weedes ſo loathly / That you ſhall hate it both : Therefore take heede, / As Hymens Lamps ſhall light you.

Anagrams

Middle English

Adjective

sower

  1. Alternative form of sour

Noun

sower

  1. Alternative form of sowere
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