Sowe vs Swoe - What's the difference?
sowe | swoe |
* {{quote-book, year=1560, author=Peter Whitehorne, title=Machiavelli, Volume I, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It hath been sometyme of greate importaunce, whilest the faighte continueth, to sowe voices, whiche doe pronounce the capitaine of thenemies to be dedde, or to have overcome on the other side of the armie: the whiche many times to them that have used it, hath given the victorie. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1589, author=George Puttenham, title=The Arte of English Poesie, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The daughter of debate, that eke discord doth sowe Shal reap no gaine where formor rule hath taught stil peace to growe. }}
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 a verb sowe
is obsolete spelling of lang=en.As a noun swoe is
a kind of cutting hoe with sharp edges.sowe
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*swoe
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(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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