sowling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

present participle and gerund of sowl

noun

A unit of land of 160 acres.

Obsolete

"A sowling is 160 acres, Cheshire measure, equal to 335,7 statute acres."
"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."
"These two sowlings (in Greenwich) in the time of King Edward, were two manors."

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sowlings (plural)

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