sowgelder

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

One who spays sows.

"The Loone is an ill ſhap'd thing like a Cormorant; but that he can neyther goe nor flye; he maketh a noiſe ſometimes like a Sovvgelders horne."
"First he that led the cavalcate, / Wore a sow-gelder’s flagellet, / On which he blew as strong a levet."
"Next, old Echepole, the sowgelder, received a blow in his forehead from our Amazonian heroine, and immediately fell to the ground."

From sow + gelder.

sowgelders (plural)

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