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Sue vs Soe - What's the difference?

sue | soe |

As a verb sue

is .

As a noun soe is

.

sue

English

Verb

  • To follow.
  • * , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
    • And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
    • though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
  • (label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
  • (label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
  • To clean (the beak, etc.).
  • To leave high and dry on shore.
  • To court.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "sue")

    Derived terms

    * sue for peace

    Related terms

    * ensue * suit

    Anagrams

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    soe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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:
    • " 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"
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