Soe vs Swoe - What's the difference?
soe | swoe |
(obsolete) a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 55:
A kind of cutting hoe with sharp edges.
* 1966 , The Rose Annual
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 26, author=Anne Raver, title=Recognizing Those Who Keep Brooklyn in Bloom, work=New York Times
, passage=(She told me I must buy a swoe , a long-handled weeder sold by Fiskars, that changed her life.) }}
As nouns the difference between soe and swoe
is that soe is while swoe is a kind of cutting hoe with sharp edges.soe
English
Noun
(en noun)- " no more then a Pump grown dry will yield any water, unless you pour a little water into it first, and then for one Bason-ful you may fetch up so many Soe -fuls"
swoe
English
Noun
(en noun)- I approached the new light hoes, swoes and other garden tools with some degree of scepticism, feeling that weight aided the cutting down operation. After two summers I am quite converted, especially as I am two years older.
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