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单词 sower
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sowern.

Brit. /ˈsəʊə/, U.S. /ˈsoʊər/
Forms: Old English–1500s sawere, Middle English sæwere, sauer, Middle English–1500s, 1800s Scottish sawer, 1500s Scottish sawar; Middle English sowere, Middle English– sower.
Etymology: < sow v.1 + -er suffix1. Compare Middle Dutch saeyer, sayer, etc. (Dutch zaaier), Middle Low German and Low German seiger, seier (saier), Old High German sâhari, sâari (Middle High German sejer, seher, sewer, etc., German säer).
1.
a. One who sows seed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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