Sow
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Sow commonly refers to:
Animals
Gardening and farming
- Sowing seed
Sow may also refer to:
Places
- River Sow, England
People
Sow is an African name, common in Senegal:
- Aminata Sow Fall, a Senegalese author
- Abdoul Salam Sow, a football player
- Abdoulaye Sékou Sow, a former Prime Minister of Mali
- Abdourahmane Sow
- Aminata Sow Fall, a Senegalese author
- Daouda Sow (boxer), a boxer
- Fatou Ndiaye Sow, a Senegalese poet
- Moussa Sow, a football player
- Osman Sow, a football player
- Pape Sow, a basketball player
Manmade objects
In medieval siege warfare, a "sow" was a mobile armored shelter used to protect troops and engineers during an attack on a castle or other fortified building.
In metallurgy, the term "sow" refers to a central channel down which molten metal is poured during the smelting process; the metal runs from the sow into side channels to form ingots known as "pigs" (hence the term "pig iron").
Acronyms
SOW as an acronym that may refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
- "Son of Whyachi", one of the machines shown on Battlebots
- Spirit Of the Wolf, a movement speed buff used in the video game EverQuest
- Super Obama World, a Flash game by Zensoft
Places
- Show Low Regional Airport, Arizona, United States, IATA airport code SOW
- Sowerby Bridge railway station, England, Network Rail station code SOW
Other uses
- Scheme of work
- Share of Wallet
- Special Operations Wing, a designation of the United States Air Force
- Statement of work or scope of work
- Stuff On Wheels, an e-commerce and logistics term
Art, entertainment, and media
- Sow (band), the band/spoken word project comprising Anna Wildsmith
- "Sow", a poem by Sylvia Plath
See also
- All pages beginning with "Sow"
- All pages with a title containing Sow
- Sew
References
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