(n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the   pig bed. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling   up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the   wall, or the like. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) A sow bug. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; --   literally or figuratively. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. i.) To sew. See Sew. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as   land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to   besprinkle. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing;   as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to   propagate.