sowling

English

Etymology 1

Verb

sowling

1. present participle and gerund of sowl

Etymology 2

Noun

sowling (plural sowlings)

1. (obsolete) A unit of land of 160 acres.
   • 1814, Thomas Downs, An historical, topographical and descriptive account of the weald of Kent:

     A sowling is 160 acres, Cheshire measure, equal to 335,7 statute acres.

   • 1856, Samuel Joseph Mackie, A descriptive and historical account of Folkestone, page 340:

     Walter Fitz-Engilbert holds half a sowling and forty acres of land, and has in demesne a plough with seven bondsmen and five acres of meadow.

   • 1884, Nathan Dews, The History of Deptford, page 14:

     These two sowlings (in Greenwich) in the time of King Edward, were two manors.

Anagrams

• lowings, owlings, slowing