Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sow over; scatter or sprinkle over.
- To sow too much of: as, to
oversow one's wheat. - To sow too much seed upon: as, to
oversow a lot with rye.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To sow where something has already been sown.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
sow where something has already been sown.
Etymologies
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Anglo-Saxon ofersawan. See over- and sow.
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Examples
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Keep it (quoth he) for fear of thieves, for danger of enemies, lest when men be asleep, they oversow cockle among that good seed of wheat, which the Son of man hath sowed in His field.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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