sowling
English
Verb
sowling
- present participle of sowl
Noun
sowling (plural sowlings)
- (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.
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Anagrams
- lowings, owlings, slowing