Sov vs Soe - What's the difference?
sov | soe |
(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:
As nouns the difference between sov and soe
is that sov is pound sterling while soe is a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people.As an initialism SOV
is subject-Object-Verb: a language is SOV if a typical sentence has subject, followed by object, followed by verb.sov
English
Synonyms
* (pound sterling) ** (standard English) pound, pound sterling ** (slang) nicker, quidAnagrams
* * * * * ----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"