Meaning & use
sower
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A person who plants or scatters seeds, especially by hand.
See it in a sentence
The painting shows a lone sower scattering grain across the field at dusk.
In the biblical parable, the sower's seeds fall on different types of soil with different results.
A note on using this word
Now mostly literary or biblical in tone; modern farming rarely uses hand-sowing, so the word carries an old-fashioned, symbolic feel.
Words with a similar meaning
planter
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