A person who sows seed; a sower. Chiefly figurative in later use. rare after 15th cent.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > sower (9) seederOE A person who sows seed; a sower. Chiefly figurative in later use. rare after 15th cent. sowerc1000 One who sows seed. seedman1569 A sower of seed; = seedsman, n. 1. Now historical and rare. seedsman1601 literal. A sower of seed. Now historical. seminator1609 A sower, a scatterer of seed. (With quot. 1609 cf. seminary, adj. 2.) superseminator1642 A person who sows something on the top of something previously sown. Chiefly figurative with allusion to the parable of the tares (Matthew 13:24, 25). dropper1770–4 One who drops seeds into the holes made by a dibbler. driller1788 One who sows seed by drilling. Subcategories:— sower's assistant (1) |
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