sowling

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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.

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