单词 | sower |
释义 | sowern. 1. a. One who sows seed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > sower seederOE sowerc1000 seedman1569 seedsman1601 seminator1609 superseminator1642 dropper1770–4 driller1788 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xiii. 3 Soþlice, ut-eode se sædere [v.r. sawere, Hatton sæwere] hys sæd to sawenne. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 155 Ðo beden þe holi apostles seien hem wat þe sowere bitocneð. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xviii. 103 Now failleþ þis folke boþe sowers and shupmen. a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) l. 28839 Þaire sede to þe feld bus husbandes bere, Bot þis feld cumes to þe sawere. 1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 10 All tillers, husbandes, and sowers of the erth within the same. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15 Good seede & good sower. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. lv. 10 That it may giue seed to the sower . View more context for this quotation 1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 321 The inequality of the handfuls which different sowers grasp. 1822 A. Cunningham Trad. Tales I. 264 An humble sower of seed-corn. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. vi. 112 I..read to them the parable of the Sower. b. figurative or in figurative context. ΚΠ c1175 Lamb. Hom. 133 Godes word is sed and crist is þe sawere. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark iv. f. xlviij The sower soweth the worde. 1779 W. Cowper Sower 3 The Sower is gone forth to sow, And scatter blessings round. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 29 The Greek has reap'd The costly harvest his own blood matured, Not the sower, Ali. 1874 W. St. H. Bourne Sower went forth Sowing (hymn) iv. (A. & M.) One day the heavenly Sower Shall reap where He hath sown. c. A machine or apparatus for sowing seed; a sowing-machine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing sower1728 seeder1759 planter1850 grass seeder1854 scatterer1868 broadcaster1934 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sembrador To remedy this Inconvenience, the Sembrador or Sower, is invented, which being fastened to the Plough, the whole Business of Plowing, Sowing and Harrowing is done at once. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 788 A simpler implement than even this has been employed—the hand-flask sower. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 417 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Field No. 1..sown with broadcast sower and cultivator combined. 2. transferred. One who spreads abroad or disseminates something, esp. what is obnoxious or objectionable; a promoter or propagator of discord, sedition, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > one who originates sower1380 originalc1390 beginnerc1400 authrix?a1475 mother1560 grandmother1569 seedster1589 father-in-law1650 originator1818 originatress1840 incubator1864 originant1892 society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > causing dissension > one who sower1380 firebranda1382 barratorc1430 makebate1529 bate-makera1564 mischief-master1567 boutefeu?1584 make-debate1588 breed-bate1593 kindle-fire1595 brew-bate1602 brand1608 fling-brand1616 make-strife1617 mischief-monger1620 blow-coal1622 kindle-coal1630 fire spirit1647 mischief-maker1675 mischief-doer1822 mixer1938 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > seditious person sower1380 kindler?c1450 stirrerc1450 subvertera1500 subverser1514 subvertor?1532 commotioner1549 provocator1559 seditioner1562 seedsman1587 tumulter1589 turmoiler1591 seditionary1607 seditiary1628 incendiary1631 patriot1644 embroiler1668 agitator1681 seditionist1786 agent provocateur1831 disquietist1834 insurrectionist1845 provocateur1855 galley-growler1867 1380 Lay Folks Catech. (Lamb. MS.) 734 Bakbyters and sowers of fals lesynggys. c1386 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 192 Almyghty Lord,..Sower of chaste counseil, herde of us alle. c1450 in Trevisa's Higden (Rolls) VIII. 469 The myrroure of ypocrites, the sawer of discorde,..maister Iohn Wiclif. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. iii. vii. 271 Ane cumpany of..seditious lymmaris, sawaris of discorde. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Tiv v Mars the God of discord and sower of all Sedition. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 130 Clouis..caused extirpate that Sower of Impostures, and all his Race. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 160 The favourite theme of the sowers of sedition. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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