Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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†SOWL, v. To pull roughly by the ears. Also in Eng. dial. The quot. below however may be liter., ad. Shakespeare Coriolanus iv. v. [sʌul]Peb. 1793 R. Brown Comic Poems (1817) 134:
Some Wives, too, here are famous round, . . . For clishmaclavers, bites, and taunts, Till they each other sowl.
