Sow

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Sow may refer to:

Animals

• Sow, female animal
  • Badger
  • Bear
  • Guinea pig
  • Hedgehog
  • Boar
  • Suidae (the pig family)
  • An adult, female swine

Games

• Sow (playing card), common name for the Deuce in cards games in southern Germany

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 armoured 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

• 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