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sow
1. a female adult pig
2. the female of certain other animals, such as the mink
3. Metallurgy
a. the channels for leading molten metal to the moulds in casting pig iron
b. iron that has solidified in these channels

sow [sau̇]
(metallurgy)
A mold of larger size than a pig.
A channel that conducts molten metal to molds in a pig bed.
(vertebrate zoology)
An adult female swine.


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A Time to Harvest completes the Star Trek adventure begun in A Time to Sow in which Captain Picard and the Enterprise are sent to investigate whether there are any survivors from a 200-year-old planetary cataclysm in a distant part of the galaxy.
For producers like Roger Mercer, who farms in Staffordshire, the restrictions added about $435 per sow in higher building and operating costs.
Those who sow in sorrow, reap in shouts of joy' (Psalm 126:5), but sometimes they do not reap at all, for 'one sows and another reaps' (John 4:37).
 
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