The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sowl \Sowl\, Sowle \Sowle\, v. t. [Cf. prov. G. zaulen, zauseln,
G. zausen to tug, drag.]
To pull by the ears; to drag about. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Sowl \Sowl\, v. i. See Soul, v. i. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context UK dialectal English) A relish; sauce; dainty; anything eaten with bread. 2 (context UK dialectal English) tasty, seasoned food. 3 (context UK dialectal English) pottage; moist, liquid food. 4 (context UK dialectal English) Any liquid that is drunk. n. 1 (context UK dialectal English) A relish; sauce; dainty; anything eaten with bread. 2 (context UK dialectal English) tasty, seasoned food. 3 (context UK dialectal English) pottage; moist, liquid food. 4 (context UK dialectal English) Any liquid that is drunk. Etymology 2
n. (archaic spelling of soul English) Etymology 3
vb. To pull by the ears; to drag about.
Usage examples of "sowl".
At the thought Darby, bracing himself, body and sowl, let a warning howl out of him.
I know--but, living or dead, the man must have a sowl, ye understand, Nicholas.
I was a sentinel, and a drunken sentinel is a disgrace to a man, sowl and body, and musket.
At the thought Darby, bracing himself body and sowl, let a warning howl out of him.
All he wants is to keep him away, and WHAT he has wid him, and thin he gobbles up that poor sowl, as a fox would sling a chicken over his showlder, and takes him off to his din.
There isnt a sowl in the counthry ud come within sight of that grave wanst the sun goes down.
To help a poor friend to a sneezer, And moisten his sowl before he died.
Ballad: The Reverend Micah Sowls The REVEREND MICAH Sowls, He shouts and yells and howls, He screams, he mouths, he bumps, He foams, he rants, he thumps.
Even afther these cries died away he stood listening a full minute, the sowls of his two brogues glued to the floor.
Hercules, I would drive the contents of this through their sowls who dare annoy us.
Ballad: The Reverend Micah Sowls The REVEREND MICAH Sowls, He shouts and yells and howls, He screams, he mouths, he bumps, He foams, he rants, he thumps.
Huts, as if ye owned thim, and I love ye as I did my own brother, before I left the county Leitrim--paice to his sowl!