Sow

1. The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
2. The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
3. A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
4. A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
5. To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
6. To sew. See Sew.
7. A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
8. To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
9. A sow bug.
10. To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.