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Quotation dates: 1646
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(Sow iron,) Sow yron, n. [e.m.E. sowe iron (1608); Sow n.1 5 and Iron n.] Pig-iron, iron in the form of ingots. —1646 J. Hope Diary (1958) 180.
Wee did see in Huy ane yron milne for refyneing of sow or geusen yron and beatteing of it into gades