Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who spays sows.

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Examples

  • If you can tell how, you may sing this to the tune a sow-gelder blows.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • There needs no more, as [4990] Fredericus Matenesius well observes, but a crier to go before them so dressed, to bid us look out, a trumpet to sound, or for defect a sow-gelder to blow,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Next old Echepole, the sow-gelder, received a blow in his forehead from our Amazonian heroine, and immediately fell to the ground.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

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