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Answer for the clue "Sow's young ", 6 letters:
litter

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Word definitions for litter in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Litter \Lit"ter\ (l[i^]t"t[~e]r), n. [F. liti[`e]re, LL. lectaria, fr. L. lectus couch, bed. See Lie to be prostrated, and cf. Coverlet .] A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) ...

Usage examples of litter.

Pendergast gestured at the Gothic appurtenances that littered the car.

In the midst of all the litter de Batz at last became conscious of two people who stood staring at him and at Heron.

On the kitchen floor, amid a litter of empty champagne fifths, were Sandor Rojas and three friends, playing spit in the ocean and staying awake on Heidseck and benzedrine pills.

A few gallant rose bushes bloomed among the tangles of unpruned fruit trees, and rotting apples littered the grounds, chewed to pieces by insects.

The sidewalks too were littered with men and women, hatless and bonnetless, who had rushed out of the houses.

Strange white shapes littered the floor, crunching brittlely underfoot.

It was a storeroom littered with boxes, and it contained a table at which Bill Browder was just seating himself.

One hundred of the many hundreds of litters piled with frankincense, myrrh, nard and other costly, burnable aromatics were stacked as a fence between the back row of chariots and the crowd, with shoulder-to-shoulder soldiers as an additional barrier.

There were blankets and the unmistakable white cargo-pods of homesteading gear littered about.

Leaving his breakfast untasted, he wandered aimlessly about the room, littering the hearth with matches as he constantly relighted his pipe, which went out every few minutes.

Which, Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus thought, watching Caesar as he read on through the papers littering his desk here in Rhodes, is why Asia Province tends to regard him as a god.

Night after night he bolted upright in the dark, panting and reaching for his axe before he realized the wagons were not in flames, that no bloody-muzzled shapes snarled over torn and twisted bodies littering the ground.

Baci waved a trembling hand at the sleeping bodies littering the drawing room.

Two teenage boys under her command were detailed to carry Malibu in a bamboo litter.

Welch Mandell was seated behind his impressive mahogany desk littered with maps and drawings, smoking his cheroot and chewing the end like he did when he was impatient.