sowling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of sowl

plural sowlings

1. obsoleteA unit of land of 160 acres.

   A sowling is 160 acres, Cheshire measure, equal to 335,7 statute acres.

   1814, Thomas Downs, An historical, topographical and descriptive account of the weald of Kent

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   Walter Fitz-Engilbert holds half a sowling and forty acres of land, and has in demesne a plough with seven bondsmen and five acres of meadow.

   1856, Samuel Joseph Mackie, A descriptive and historical account of Folkestone, page 340

   These two sowlings (in Greenwich) in the time of King Edward, were two manors.

   1884, Nathan Dews, The History of Deptford, page 14