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sower
/ˈsəʊɚ/
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What does sower mean?
noun
- One who or that which sows.
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adjective
- (archaic) Archaic form of sour.
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“Then the romance of the sower is gone for good,” observed Elizabeth-Jane, who felt herself at one with Farfrae in Bible-reading at least.
It was pretty to watch; it made Margery think of a photograph her teacher had, a photograph of a famous picture called "The Sower."
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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.
The spinner is almost always a distinct person from the weaver; but the ploughman, the harrower, the sower of the seed, and the reaper of the corn, are often the same.
The seeding is usually done broadcast by hand on all small areas, the sower going both ways (at right angles) across the area to lessen the likelihood of missing any part.